The human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman has condemned in the strongest possible terms the massacre committed today against civilians, mostly women and children, in Sanaa's Atan district by Saudi-led military coalition.

The human rights activist and Nobel Peace laureate Tawakkol Karman has urged Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi to put an end to the military role plaid by the United Arab Emirates as part of Saudi-led military coalition, whose operations have been ongoing in Yemen since March 2015. 

PeaceJam today organized a special ceremony in honor of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman on the sidelines of her participation in the 3-day conference “Thinking in 21st Century”, hosted by la Universidad Autónoma del Caribe in Barranquilla, northern Colombia.

The people of Yemen will protect the values they have sacrificed for, and there is no way to return to dictatorship," said Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights activist Tawakkol Karman, stressing that what is happening in the Middle East today is a counter-revolution against anti-dictatorship peoples. 

The road to peace goes through justice and peaceful means, stated the human rights activist and Nobel Peace laureate Tawakkol Karman, stressing the need to make reparation to victims of conflicts.

Nobel Peace laureate and human rights advocate Tawakkol Karman arrived today in the Colombian capital of Bogota to participate in the "21st Century Thinking" conference hosted by at the Autonomous University of the Caribbean (la Universidad Autónoma del Caribe). 

The human rights activist and Nobel Peace laureate Tawakkol Karman said there would be no chance for a sustainable peace in Yemen without justice against Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his family, overthrown in a popular uprising in 2011.