Leymah Gbowee
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee with her Nobel diploma at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo, Norway, 10 December 2011.
© The Nobel Foundation 2011. Photo: Ken Opprann
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman viewing the traditional torch light procession in Oslo from a balcony at the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Norway, 10 December 2011.
© The Nobel Foundation 2011. Photo: Ken Opprann
From left: Host Helen Mirren, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman, and artist Angélique Kidjo at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert at the Oslo Spektrum Arena on 11 December 2011.
© The Nobel Foundation 2011. Photo: Ken Opprann
Leymah Gbowee autographs a chair at Bistro Nobel at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, 12 December 2011.
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Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman during their visit to the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, 12 December 2011.
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Eleven of the thirteen 2011 Nobel Laureates assembled for a group photo during their visit to the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, 12 December 2011. Back row, left to right: Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Tawakkol Karman and Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Laureates in Physics Brian P. Schmidt, Saul Perlmutter and Adam G. Riess, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Dan Shechtman and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Bruce A. Beutler. Front row, left to right: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Laureate in Economic Sciences Christopher A. Sims, Nobel Laureate in Literature Tomas Tranströmer and Laureate in Economic Sciences Thomas J. Sargent.
© The Nobel Foundation 2011. Photo: Orasisfoto
Leymah Gbowee addresses the Opening Session of the PGA High-Level Thematic Debate on the United Nations, Peace and Security, 10 May 2016.
Photo: © UN Photo/Rick Bajornas. Published by Mogens Lykketoft, President of UNGA on Flickr. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
Portrait of Leymah Gbowee.
Photo: Michael Angelo for Wonderland
Liberian women demonstrate at the American Embassy in Monrovia at the height of the civil war in July 2003.
Photo: Pewee Flomoku
Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
See them all presented here.