Liberian President Shares Nobel Peace Prize With Women
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 is to be divided in three equal parts between Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for womens rights to full participation in peace-building work.
As the Norwegian Nobel Committee named Liberian President Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf a joint winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, opposition party supporters were flooding the streets… Read more »
Feted internationally, Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is finding her shiny new Nobel Peace Prize isn't universally welcomed at home. And with elections just around the… Read more »
Liberian President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, enthusiastically welcomed the Nobel Peace Prize award on Friday, describing it as recognisition for years of fighting for democracy in… Read more »
This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to three women: President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, her fellow Liberian Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkui Karman, the woman who was… Read more »
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and her compatriot Leymah Gbowee, who mobilised fellow women against their country's civil war, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, along… Read more »
This year's coming presidential elections will serve as a true test of Liberia's commitment to peace, as well as the United Nations' ability to ... see more »
The Stanley Foundation wishes to congratulate the winners of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, including Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee,… Read more »
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to three women – Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni journalist and activist… Read more »
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 is to be divided in three equal parts between Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman… Read more »
Africa's first democratically elected woman president, cyber activists who helped bring about the Arab Spring uprising or maybe the European Union? Speculation ahead of Friday's… Read more »
One night, in a country swept up in a long and harrowing armed conflict, Liberian social worker Leymah Gbowee dreamt that she gathered women together to pray for peace. Read more »
Editor's Note: In Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's Liberia, women and girls have increasingly come to realize that only the sky is the limit. As they broaden their horizons new challenges… Read more »
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf hosted a one-day Women's Leadership Retreat in Paynesville on Saturday, and challenged Liberian women to assume leadership roles at all levels. The… Read more »
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