liberia's first female president, ellen johnson-sirleaf, lirian activist leymah gbowee, and yemini journalist tawakkol karman. the women share the 2011 peace prize and now they're sharing the journey of advocacy. their work is a model for others trying to end inequality against women in their homelands: >> the nobel committee cannot license us to speak for women, but has provided us the platform to speak to women. women around the globe. [ applause ] >> she founder of women journalists without chains, tawakkol karman told us she accepted the award for her work empowering arab women. >> the head of the nobel peace prize committee said it is for tawakkol as a person and for her struggle for women's rights, human rights but she said it's also for arab spring. also for muslim, for islam that isn't against. >> she is intsifying her effort to empower women. she's encouraging them to serving as ambassadors of peace and reconciliation. gbowee, who grew up in a refugee camp during liberia's civil war, organized christian and muslim women to demonstrate together during the war. her organization was piv

africa's first female president, ellen johnson-sirleaf, was elected in 2005. know, with the whole liberian rebuilding process, it's not about bringing in, you know, skyscrapers and superhighways. it's just very, very basic-- doctors in the hospitals, teachers in schools... oh, yeah, dude, happy birthday! thank you. my bad, man, i'm sorry. you guys came on the right day! happy birthday, man. we kind of forgot. [guy]: we've arrived on kimmie's birthday. he's only 25 today, but he's been a child rights activist since he was 10 years old. when liberia's war first broke out, kimmie was forced into a refugee camp, where he almost died of hunger and disease. [weeks]: there was a point where someone had declared that i had died. they had wrapped me up and threw me on a heap of bodies. it was from that point that i had said to myself, "there is no reason children should be living in these conditions." and i said i would dedicate my entire life to making sure that no child went without food or water or medicine. i didn't know how... i was 10 at this point. [guy]: his mo