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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]
20 Jan 2014, 10:06 am
The 1st woman head of state in that country, Samba-Panza joins 2 others in Africa: President Joyce Banda of Malawi and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia. [read post]
13 Dec 2010, 10:06 am
The series anticipates balloting next year, during which Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (right; prior IntLawGrrls posts), President since 2006, will vie for re-election. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 3:50 am
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is the current President of Liberia. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 3:01 pm
* * * Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a giant in world history — the first woman elected President of an African country, she has made transparency and human rights a hallmark of her tenure. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 10:10 am
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize goes to 2 Liberians, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (below left) and Leymah Gbowee (below right), and to Tawakul Karman of Yemen (left). [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 5:04 am
The winners were Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf — Africa’s first elected female president — her compatriot, peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakul Karman of Yemen, a pro-democracy campaigner. [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]
15 Dec 2017, 4:43 am
Contents include: Alexei Kireyev & Chiedu Osakwe, Making trade multilateralism work for all: the role of WTO accessions Alexei Kireyev, The WTO and the changing state of the global economy Micheline Calmy-Rey & Svenja Rauch, The art and science of negotiation: de-politicizing and technicizing negotiations Alexei Kireyev, Chiedu Osakwe & Anna Varyanik, The accession of Kazakhstan: dealing with complexity Arancha González, Helping businesses navigate WTO accession … [read post]
17 Aug 2014, 9:26 pm
It arrived in Liberia on Wednesday after appeals by leaders there to top officials in the United States and a letter from President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia to President Obama.Mapp Biopharmaceutical of San Diego, which provided the drug, said the “available supply of ZMapp has been exhausted. [read post]
8 Oct 2011, 3:27 pm
In honor of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkul Karman - we celebrate those countries named as the ten most peaceful by the Global Peace Index for 2011 - Iceland, New Zealand, Japan, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Austria, Finland, Canada, Norway, and Slovenia – and challenge American businesses to ramp up their charitable donations to peace organizations with the goal of moving the United States into… [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 12:42 pm
MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images Today the Nobel Committee announced that it is awarding its Peace Prize to three women: Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkul Karman, and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. [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]
17 Apr 2011, 4:24 pm
On 23 November 2005, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected President of Liberia. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 10:30 pm
"A partial list of women heads of government or state to which Gillard now belongs:Laura Chinchilla of Costa Rica, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, Doris Leuthard of Switzerland, Pratibha Patil of India, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina and Kyrgyzstan's interim government leader Roza Otunbayeva. [read post]
6 Mar 2009, 9:46 am
Fernandez DeKirchner, President of Argentina since 2007 Zinaida Grecianii, Prime Minister of Moldova since 2008 Tarja Kaarina Halonen, President of Finland since 2000 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia since 2006 Borjana Kristo, President of the Federation of Bosnia since 2007 Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines since 2001 Mary McAleese, President of Ireland since 1997 Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany since 2005 Pratibha Patil, President of… [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 7:00 am
In the last election season, held in 2005, a temporary reprieve allowed candidates, including President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the incumbent president, who fled Liberia due to the civil war, to stand for election. [read post]
22 Jan 2021, 11:39 am
Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Co-Chair of the Independent Panel, relayed concerns around lack of support for the WHO, finding, “[i]ts powers and funding to carry out its functions are limited. [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]
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]
