The human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman has said that establishing a national state that guarantees rights and freedoms in the Arab Spring countries is a noble purpose and a holy battle,

stressing that the Arab Spring has never stopped and is still going on as it is an urgent need but not a passing fancy. 

Karman added that the Arab Spring revolution were an inevitable response to regimes ruled by corruption and despotism, calling for a global struggle to adopt reforms within the United Nations including the UN Security Council and the UN Human Rights Council in order to make them more effective bodies that are able to protect peoples from massacres committed by rulers. 

“This is our holy battle we will keep fighting along with the world’s free people for rights, freedoms, justice, peace, the rule of law, democracy and coexistence,” said Mrs. Karman at a side-event organized by International Lawyers Organization on the sidelines of meetings of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on 2 March.  

She pointed out that achieving such state would be a crucial step towards advocacy for human rights."

She indicated that the countries of the Arab Spring experienced significant progress in the observance of basic human rights and civil liberties in the wake of the fall of the dictatorship. 

Karman expressed regret over the involvement of the democratic west in the betrayal and conspiracy of silence against revolutions and nascent democracies in Egypt, Yemen, Libyan and Syrian.

"The west we counted on should have made the Arab Spring an inspiring spring for other peoples yearning for freedom and equality, at least it should have taken the necessary measures to stop the regime of Bashar al-Assad from killing over half a million people just because they demanded freedom," she continued. 

Finally, she added as an afterthought, "but unfortunately, Bashar al-Assad and Sisi have been met with the international silence over their crimes, and this let them be inspiring for all authoritarian regimes over the globe to oppress their own people.”