​When We Are Bold

Hooria Mashhour is a women’s rights activist who became Yemen’s first human rights minister after the country’s 2011 revolution—a position she was forced to leave after the Houthi militia overthrew the government.

Read Tawakkol Karman: Leading a Revolution from the Street 
by Hooria Mashhour in When We Are Bold: Women Who Turn Our Upsidedown World Right

In 2011, at the age of 32, Tawakkol Karman became the youngest person ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In her native Yemen, she was at the forefront of the struggle for human rights and women’s participation in peacebuilding for years, organizing non violent protests that swelled in size and became part of the 2011 Arab Spring movements.