To commemorate the International Day of Non-Violence, 2017, the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) and the Permanent Delegation of the Republic of India to UNESCO are organising the second Ahinsa Lecture by Ms Tawakkol Karman,

Nobel Peace laureate and human rights defender Tawakkol Karman has welcomed yesterday’s decision by the UN human rights council to set up an independent investigation into all alleged abuses of human rights in Yemen dating back to September 2014.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will will make a live interview on Facebook with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman on the International Day of Nonviolence on 2 October.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights activist Tawakkol Karman has reiterated that President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi has been under house arrest in Riyadh.

Nobel Peace laureate and human rights activist, Tawakkol Karman, strongly criticizes the fact that Western governments have turned a deaf ear to what Arab dictatorships have been used to do against their peoples. 

The Houthi militia and Yemen’s overthrown president Ali Abdullah Saleh have caused all calamities and pains that have plagued, and still continue to plague, Yemen, said Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights defender, Tawakkol Karman. 

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights activist Tawakkol Karman said the Islamic state(IS) has emerged and grown up because the world did not listen to the voices coming from the countries of the Arab Spring.