Tawakkol Karman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and their right to full participation peace building process in Yemen. Karman was the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman, and the second Muslim woman to receive this honor, and at 32, was the youngest Nobel Prize Laureates to date. Karman is a mother of three as well as a human rights activist, journalist, politician, and the president of the organization Women Journalists Without Chains. She is a General Coordinator of the Peacful Revolutionary Youth Council in Yemen. Bold and outspoken, Karman has been imprisoned on a number of occasions for her pro-democracy, pro-human rights protests. Amongst Yemen’s Youth movement, she is known as “mother of the revolution”, “the iron woman”, and the Lady of the Arab Spring. TIME Magazine described her as a ‘Torchbearer of the Arab Spring’ and named her both one of the 100 most influential women defining the last century and one of the Most Rebellious Women in History. She was member of the High-Level Panel of eminent persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. She is now board member of the Facebook oversight board, and Nobel Women initiative, Karman continues to advocate against dictatorships, extremism and terrorism and takes an active role working to restore peace and political process in Yemen.

Programas y seminarios destacados

  • Harvard Course in Law and Economics

    Fecha de inicio: 02/10/2023

    El objetivo de este programa es ofrecer una visión actualizada de algunas de las cuestiones relevantes en el ámbito del análisis económico del derecho.

  • Curso online La competencia en los mercados

    Fecha de inicio: Abierto

    Introducción a los elementos esenciales que configuran la política de competencia y debate en torno a los principios e instrumentos de la política de competencia.

  • Curso online El liberalismo, una filosofía en peligro

    Fecha de inicio: Abierto

    ¿Por qué son tantos los obstáculos con que se enfrenta el liberalismo, tan implacables los enemigos con los que ha de batallar y tan blandos los aliados con que a duras penas cuenta?

  • Ética de la Inteligencia Artificial. Carissa Véliz

    Fecha de inicio: Próximamente

    Este curso nos ayudará a comprender la "realidad digital" que vivimos. Un enfoque práctico y constructivo, ofreciendo posibles soluciones a los desafíos éticos generados por la IA.