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17 Nov 2008, 6:54 am
The study will be presented by ZARD in March 2009 at the International Colloquium on Women’s Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace and Security 2009 (Colloquium), a global forum spearheaded by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and President Tarja Halonen of Finland designed to give African countries an opportunity to reflect and improve upon their commitments to empower women, particularly through political leadership. [read post]
6 Oct 2008, 6:43 am
Predictably, President Johnson-Sirleaf is thunderstruck by the force of the sexual violence. [read post]
23 Feb 2008, 10:29 pm
(At left, a 2007 photo of Bush with Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.)African and European policymakers came together at an international conference in Accra, Ghana, to strategize on ways to prevent thousands of deaths and human rights abuses involved in irregular migration flows between the continents. [read post]
28 Oct 2007, 11:05 pm
Before this, her skill at divining, or finding things, had been enlisted at times by courts seeking to solve larcenies. de Brigue and another convicted woman would be burned at the stake in August of the following year.... 1938, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (left) was born in Monrovia, Liberia, into a family descended from those onetime slaves in the United States who went on to colonize Liberia in the 19th century. [read post]
28 Oct 2007, 6:30 pm
Happy 69th birthday to Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, president of Liberia.... [read post]
1 Sep 2007, 12:53 am
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf: President of Liberia.A good list, but by no means complete. [read post]
4 Mar 2007, 7:54 am
Rwanda hosted the Kigali Conference of Women Parliamentarians last week, with appearances by such political luminaries as President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia (the first female president of an African country) and the aim of producing practical policy recommendations on gender and nation-building. [read post]
3 Mar 2007, 1:22 pm
It is a world where women act, as prime ministers or ministers of state (Angela Merkel and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Condoleezza Rice and Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, to name a very few), as lawmakers (Nancy Pelosi), as judges (Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Beverley McLachlin, Rosalyn Higgins and Françoise Tulkens), and as advocates, in international organizations (Louise Arbour and Margaret Chan) and in society at large (Shirin Ebadi and Wangari Muta Maathai, Rigoberta… [read post]
3 Mar 2007, 11:21 am
It is a world where women act, as prime ministers or ministers of state (Angela Merkel and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Condoleezza Rice and Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, to name a very few), as lawmakers (Nancy Pelosi), as judges (Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Beverley McLachlin, Rosalyn Higgins and Françoise Tulkens), and as advocates, in international organizations (Louise Arbour and Margaret Chan) and in society at large (Shirin Ebadi and Wangari Muta Maathai,… [read post]
2 Mar 2007, 4:16 pm
It is a world where women act, as prime ministers or ministers of state (Angela Merkel and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Condoleezza Rice and Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, to name a very few), as lawmakers (Nancy Pelosi), as judges (Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Beverley McLachlin, Rosalyn Higgins and Françoise Tulkens), and as advocates, in international organizations (Louise Arbour and Margaret Chan) and in society at large (Shirin Ebadi and Wangari Muta Maathai,… [read post]
23 Jun 2006, 12:38 pm
The TRC was inaugurated [JURIST report] in February by Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf [BBC profile], who said that the commission is intended to heal the war-torn [read post]
25 Mar 2006, 10:28 am
According to a statement: "President Olusegun Obasanjo has today, 25 March, informed President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf that the government of Liberia is free to take former President Charles Taylor into [read post]
22 Mar 2006, 12:42 am
[JURIST] In an effort to bring closure to the contentious issue of the fate of former Liberian President Charles Taylor [PBS profile], Liberia's new president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf [profile] on Tuesday called on African leaders to decide whether to place Taylor in the hands of a UN tribunal to face war crimes charges. [read post]
21 Feb 2006, 2:34 am
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf [BBC profile] presided over the swearing-in of the nine commission members, and she called the commission an opportunity to "bring [read post]
5 Dec 2005, 9:56 am
[JURIST] Liberia's president-elect [JURIST report] Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf [BBC profile], soon to becomethe first female president of an African state, vowed Monday that all rapists will be appropriately punished during her presidency according to a new law. [read post]
