The Babu Jagjivan Ram Fifth Memorial Lecture was delivered by Ms.Tawakkol Karman, The Youngest Nobel Laureate – Peace, 2011 on 05.04.2012 at Vigyan Bhawan Delhi. Smt. Meira Kumar, Speaker Lok Sabha presided over the programme & Sh. Mukul Wasnik Hon’ble Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment graced the occasion. 

The Nobel Peace Prize Winner of 2011 Ms. Tawakkol Karman is known to be achieved prominence as a result of the Arab Spring. She openly challenged the repressive system in her country, Yemen. Ever since 2007, she has staged weekly protests with fellow members of Women Journalists Without Chains, the movement she founded two years earlier, to campaign against injustice. She delivered the 5th Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Lecture on ‘Arab Spring Revolution-how, why and what after?” in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 5 April 2012. 

Ms. Tawakkol Karman said that Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. as world leaders inspired her. She said “Gandhi ji inspired peace struggles the world over. The youth who participated in the Arab Spring too were inspired by his teachings”. Dr. Charu WaliKhanna, Member, NCW interacted with her and discussed common issues and problems of women.

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