OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Africa's first democratically elected female president, a Liberian campaigner against rape and a woman who stood up to Yemen's autocratic regime won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of the importance of women's rights in the spread of global peace....
Nobel Peace Prize Goes To Women's Rights Activists
By KARL RITTER and BJOERN H. AMLAND, Associated Press
Fri, 10/07/2011 - 4:24am
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