LEYMAH GBOWEE accepts 2009 JFK Profile in Courage Award
LEYMAH GBOWEE accepts 2009 JFK Profile in Courage Award
Liberian peace activist Leymah gbowee accepts the 2009 JFK Profile in Courage Award on behalf of the many women who worked with her in pushing for ... Rated: 5 Duration: 384 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:32:40 PDT
LEYMAH GBOWEE
LEYMAH GBOWEE
Peace Activist Leymah gbowee gives a powerful speech at the 5th Annual Living Legends Awards For Service to Humanity at the Emmanuel-Brinklow ... Rated: 5 Duration: 457 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:30:27 PST
LEYMAH GBOWEE
LEYMAH GBOWEE
2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah gbowee (Liberia, Ghana), Executive Director, Women Peace and Security Network Africa, on womwn and the ... Rated: 5 Duration: 651 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:56:11 PDT
LEYMAH GBOWEE Talks About the Power of Images
LEYMAH GBOWEE Talks About the Power of Images
March 14, 2010 -- On the final day of the Women in the World summit, Leymah gbowee talked about the power of images in telling the story of what ... Rated: 5 Duration: 85 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:36:41 PDT
Women@Google: LEYMAH GBOWEE in conversation with Megan Smith
Women@Google: LEYMAH GBOWEE in conversation with Megan Smith
Leymah gbowee was only 17 when the Second Liberian Civil War erupted. Years of fighting destroyed her country—and her hopes and dreams. As a ... Rated: 4.7419353 Duration: 4218 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:47:25 PDT
NYSL: LEYMAH GBOWEE on "Mighty Be Our Powers"
NYSL: LEYMAH GBOWEE on "Mighty Be Our Powers"
www.nysoclib.org As a young woman growing up in Africa, Leymah gbowee was broken by a savage civil war that destroyed life as she knew it. As war ... Rated: 5 Duration: 3482 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:01:35 PDT
LEYMAH GBOWEE - Oslo Freedom Forum 2011
LEYMAH GBOWEE - Oslo Freedom Forum 2011
Leymah gbowee is the founder of Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, a group committed to bringing Liberia out of its cycle of civil war, the ... Rated: 5 Duration: 935 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:51:54 PDT
LEYMAH GBOWEE: How We Organized Women to Vote in Liberia
LEYMAH GBOWEE: How We Organized Women to Vote in Liberia
Sept. 13, 2011: Speaking at the inaugural event for the Women in the World Foundation, activist and author Leymah gbowee tells Robin Roberts that ... Rated: 5 Duration: 101 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:14:28 PDT
Trio of women share prestigious Peace Prize
Trio of women share prestigious Peace Prize
world, Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah gbowee and Yemeni women's rights activist, Tawakul Karman ... Rated: 4.3454547 Duration: 152 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:53:05 PDT
LEYMAH GBOWEE: Seeing the Patterns
LEYMAH GBOWEE: Seeing the Patterns
Leymah gbowee, founder of Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, says her struggles have strengthened her faith that God uses the "foolish ... Rated: 5 Duration: 100 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:26:15 PST
Nobel Prize Winner LEYMAH GBOWEE - Amanpour
Nobel Prize Winner LEYMAH GBOWEE - Amanpour
Leymah gbowee and Angelique Kidjo speak with Christiane Amanpour - October 2009 Rated: 4.6923075 Duration: 698 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:28:57 PDT
Keynote: LEYMAH GBOWEE (CGI 2011)
Keynote: LEYMAH GBOWEE (CGI 2011)
Leymah gbowee, Executive Director of the Women Peace and Security Network - Africa, presents a keynote address at the 2011 Clinton Global ... Rated: 5 Duration: 828 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:03:18 PDT
LEYMAH GBOWEE, Nobel Laureate
LEYMAH GBOWEE, Nobel Laureate
Liberian women's peace advocate Leymah gbowee spoke about peace, justice and women's activism at the Interchurch Center in New York City ... Rated: 5 Duration: 562 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:27:38 PDT
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On August 21st, 2010, members of the DC metropolitan area and the international community gathered to introduce the vision of The Gbomai Bestman ... Rated: -1 Duration: 597 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:29:11 PDT
Leymah Roberta Gbowee, Womens Rights Activist and AJWS Grantee, Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Leymah Roberta Gbowee, Womens Rights Activist and AJWS Grantee, Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Leymah gbowee, director of AJWS grantee Women Peace and Security Network-Africa (WIPSEN), has won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Leymah was awarded ... Rated: 5 Duration: 199 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:47:16 PDT
Charlie Rose - LEYMAH GBOWEE (10/17/11)
Charlie Rose - LEYMAH GBOWEE (10/17/11)
The winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, Liberian peace and women's rights activist Leymah gbowee www.CharlieRose.com Rated: 5 Duration: 142 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:19:24 PDT
Social Enterprise Conference: Nobel Laureate LEYMAH GBOWEE
Social Enterprise Conference: Nobel Laureate LEYMAH GBOWEE
Leymah gbowee, founder and executive director of the Women Peace and Security Network Africa and Nobel Peace Laureate, spoke in conversation with ... Rated: 5 Duration: 2424 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:07:21 PDT
LEYMAH GBOWEE: I Never Dreamed Id Win the Nobel Prize
LEYMAH GBOWEE: I Never Dreamed Id Win the Nobel Prize
Just hours after finding out she'd won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, Leymah gbowee sat down with The Daily Beast to give her reaction. In this ... Rated: 5 Duration: 56 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:40:59 PDT
LEYMAH GBOWEE (Liberia)- Harassment was the Order of Their Day
LEYMAH GBOWEE (Liberia)- Harassment was the Order of Their Day
At a meeting with the staff of the Institute for Inclusive Security Cambridge, MA in 2011, Leymah gbowee discussed the issues she discovered as ... Rated: -1 Duration: 263 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:36:16 PDT
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Pray The Devil Back To Hell - Liberia
Pray The Devil Back To Hell - Liberia
NPR interview with Filmmaker Abigail Disney and Liberian activist Leymah gbowee about "The Women in White" protest against Charles ... Rated: 4.5 Duration: 529 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:17:53 PST
LEYMAH GBOWEE: My Story Is a Tribute to Women in Crisis
LEYMAH GBOWEE: My Story Is a Tribute to Women in Crisis
Just hours after finding out she'd won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, Leymah gbowee sat down with The Daily Beast to give her reaction. In this ... Rated: 5 Duration: 30 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:41:19 PDT
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Liberia Pres. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Activist LEYMAH GBOWEE Honored for Peace, Equality Work
Liberia Pres. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Activist LEYMAH GBOWEE Honored for Peace, Equality Work
www.DemocracyNow.org - For Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Nobel Peace Prize announcement comes as she wraps up her re-election ... Rated: 5 Duration: 290 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:05:12 PDT
Peace Activist Leymah gbowee gives a powerful speech at the 5th Annual Living Legends Awards For Service to Humanity at the Emmanuel-Brinklow Seventh-Day Adv... - www.youtube.com
Women@Google: LEYMAH GBOWEE
Women@Google: LEYMAH GBOWEE
Leymah gbowee was only 17 when the Second Liberian Civil War erupted. Years of fighting destroyed her country—and her hopes and dreams. As a young mother tra... - www.youtube.com
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Nobel Peace Prize honours African, Arab women leymah – Stabroek News
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LEYMAH GBOWEE and Abigail Disney Shoot for Peace in Liberia - Oprah.
LEYMAH GBOWEE and Abigail Disney Shoot for Peace in Liberia - Oprah.
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What is LEYMAH GBOWEE's Drive? | Geronimo Coaching Now
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GFW Grantee LEYMAH GBOWEE on the Colbert Report - Global Fund for ...
GFW Grantee LEYMAH GBOWEE on the Colbert Report - Global Fund for ...
2011 Nobel laureate LEYMAH GBOWEE shows dry wit on The Daily Show
2011 Nobel laureate LEYMAH GBOWEE shows dry wit on The Daily Show
Liberian activist Leymah gbowee, one of this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureates, tells The Daily Show's Jon Stewart how her women's prayer network helped end one of Africa's worst civil wars. By Scott Baldauf, Staff writer / November 15, 2011 Leymah ...
LEYMAH GBOWEE Forges Peace
LEYMAH GBOWEE Forges Peace
Distraught over the violence that marred the eve of Liberia's elections, a tearful Leymah gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the author of Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War, risked her life to force a ...
Nobel Prize Winner LEYMAH GBOWEE on Violence and Liberia's Election
Nobel Prize Winner LEYMAH GBOWEE on Violence and Liberia's Election
While results are forthcoming from Liberia's presidential election, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah gbowee charts her response to the violence that preceded it. Violence erupted on November 7th, one day before my country was to vote in an important ...
Nobel Peace Prize winner LEYMAH GBOWEE: Liberia is progressing, but still divided
Nobel Peace Prize winner LEYMAH GBOWEE: Liberia is progressing, but still divided
Liberian peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah gbowee praises Liberia for how far it has come since the civil war days of a decade ago, but warns that tribalism still divides her country. By Clair MacDougall, Correspondent / October 31, ...
Gbowee in tears over Liberia violence
Gbowee in tears over Liberia violence
Now R524.95 Monrovia - Joint Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah gbowee said on Tuesday she cried all night following eve-of-election clashes that left four opposition demonstrators dead but said Liberians faced a defining moment. ...
Debbie Harry, Hayley Williams, Alison Mosshart: Greatest Living Women In Rock
Debbie Harry, Hayley Williams, Alison Mosshart: Greatest Living Women In Rock
No, this year's grand acolade was shared between Ellen Jonhson Sirleaf, Leymah gbowee and Tawakel Karman for their non-violent struggle for women's rights around the world. Well it seems that the rock world has followed suit, with women dominating the ...
Nothing to fear from 'sex strikes'
Nothing to fear from 'sex strikes'
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah gbowee and Tawakkol Karman "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work". ...
Anita Hill, Gbowee Speak of Home, Conquering Fear
Anita Hill, Gbowee Speak of Home, Conquering Fear
By Rita Henley Jensen Anita Hill and Liberia's Nobel Laureate Leymah gbowee prevailed in very different historic confrontations. But this week they expressed a similar longing for home. And both were asked about how they'd faced down fear. ...
Echoes of Our Past, Visions of Our Future: In Tribute to Maathai, Sirleaf and ...
Echoes of Our Past, Visions of Our Future: In Tribute to Maathai, Sirleaf and ...
The burial of Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and the joint conferring of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah gbowee of Liberia and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen in October draw ...
Monday's talk shows
Monday's talk shows
“The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” (10 pm, Comedy Central): Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah gbowee. “Late Show With David Letterman” (10:35 pm, Channel 2): Actor Jason Segel; chef Jamie Oliver; music group the Kooks. “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” ...
Liberian Nobel Prize winner, EMU alumna, is well connected to peace-church ...
Liberian Nobel Prize winner, EMU alumna, is well connected to peace-church ...
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Leymah gbowee is closely connected with Mennonites and the peace-church tradition. Leymah gbowee speaks at Eastern Mennonite University, where she was honored as Alumna of the Year during homecoming weekend Oct. 14-16. ...
Liberia's opposition begins week of mourning with mass rally
Liberia's opposition begins week of mourning with mass rally
Johnson-Sirleaf has vowed to launch an inquiry into Monday's events and has placed fellow Nobel laureate and peace advocate Leymah gbowee at the head of a national reconciliation effort. But the CDC's Morlu said the party does not endorse the effort. ...
Gender Equality and Social Justice: Why Foreign Assistance Matters
Gender Equality and Social Justice: Why Foreign Assistance Matters
These three leaders -- President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and peace activist Leymah gbowee of Liberia and Yemeni democracy advocate Tawakul Karman -- have changed our world. We in the United States should be thrilled by the Nobel Committee's choice, ...
Jews Help African Nobel Winner Aid Women
Jews Help African Nobel Winner Aid Women
By Elana Sztokman When the announcement was made that the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize would be given to three women, including Leymah gbowee (pronounced LAY-muh BO-wee), some Jews were particularly proud. Gbowee, an extraordinary Liberian activist and ...
MLK News: Fighting for Peace
MLK News: Fighting for Peace
On October 7, 2011, the Nobel Peace prize was awarded to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah gbowee and Tawakkul Karman. Each of these women are doing their own work, but all share one hope, for women's rights and peace. After all of their effort, ...
Kathryn Lohre installed November 9
Kathryn Lohre installed November 9
At a luncheon honoring her installation sponsored by Odyssey Networks, Lohre told the story of the National Council of Churches reception for Liberian peace activist Leymah gbowee on October 7, the day she won the Nobel Peace Prize. ...
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2011 Nobel laureate LEYMAH GBOWEE shows dry wit on The Daily Show
It’s a time-tested fact that Americans don’t really care about foreign affairs, a fact reinforced by the cutback of foreign bureaus by major television news outlets. Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah gbowee: Liberia is progressing, but still ...
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Leymah gbowee brought peace to war-torn Liberia after more than a decade of civil war. She is the central figure in the documentary “Pray the Devil Back to Hell ...
LEYMAH GBOWEE - Mighty Be Our Powers
One particularly charismatic woman among them was Leymah gbowee, (who former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert has said "should be a lesson to all ...
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About Leymah Liberian peace and womens rights activist Leymah gbowee is the Newsweek Daily Beasts Africa columnist. As war ravaged Liberia, Leymah gbowee realized ...
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"Women, War & Peace," 10 p.m. (KCTS): "War Redefined" — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice; peace activist Leymah gbowee; Bosnian war-crimes investigator Fadila Memisevic; Moises Naim.
LEYMAH GBOWEE – profile | World news | The Guardian
Oct 7, 2011 ... The peace campaigner, a joint winner of this year's Nobel peace prize, led the women's movement to help end war in Liberia.
LETTER; Women Working for Peace
To the Editor: Re Among 3 Women Awarded Nobel Peace Prize, a Nod to the Arab Spring (news article, Oct. 8): As chairwoman of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, NY, a coalition of 80 nongovernmental organizations, from 2007 to 2011, I had the opportunity to meet two of the three women awarded the Nobel Peace Prize -- Ellen Johnson
MEMO FROM LIBERIA; Nobel Winner Doesnt Want to Talk About It on the Campaign Trail
MONROVIA, Liberia -- The Nobel Peace Prize is a high-voltage endorsement for a president seeking a second term to receive four days before the election. But analysts questioned whether it would have much impact in Liberia, a sweltering tropical nation where nearly half the population cannot read. The megaseal of approval for Liberias president, - By ADAM NOSSITER
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While results are forthcoming from Liberia's presidential election, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah gbowee charts her response to the violence that preceded.
Liberian Activist LEYMAH GBOWEE Speaks Out Against Liberia Election Violence
The violence that overtook Liberia’s capital on Nov. 7, in which one person was left dead, presented a grave omen ahead of the country’s presidential election runoff on Nov. 8. The vicious scene was too much for Liberian activist Leymah ...
Heart And Soul - The Right Thing - Episode 1
Copy the URL and paste into your emails or Tweets, or post on your favourite sites. Miriam O’Reilly in conversation with Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah gbowee whose womens peace movement brought an end to civil war in Liberia. Miriam OReilly begins a new ...
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Leymah gbowee discusses the consequences about the second liberiana civil war and believes that Charles Taylor would have to be…
Nobel winner Gbowee in tears over Liberia violence
MONROVIA — Joint Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah gbowee said Tuesday she cried all night following eve-of-election clashes that left four opposition demonstrators dead but said Liberians faced a defining moment. “It’s a sad moment personally.
LEYMAH GBOWEE, the Nobel Peace Prize, and Stephen Colbert « WIT
In case you missed the news, I wanted to direct your attention to the awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize in October to three African women, “for ...
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Leymah gbowee 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Roberta Gbowee is the executive director of the Women Peace and Security Network Africa, based in ...
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Distraught over violence that has marred the eve of Liberia’s elections, Nobel laureate Leymah gbowee helps broker peace.
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Leymah gbowee was a 17 year-old girl when the war first came to Monrovia. As she says, she turned, "from a child into an adult in a matter of hours." As the war ...
Unusual Benefactor Finances Book Tour
It is trickier than ever for an author to persuade a publisher to finance a traditional book tour. Brick-and-mortar bookstores are decreasing, travel is expensive, and money for marketing and promotion is increasingly being spent online. So it is striking that Leymah gbowee, a relatively unknown author of a memoir describing her life as a peace - By JULIE BOSMAN
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Leymah gbowee organized a sex strike among women until the Liberian civil war ended.
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Leymah Roberta Gbowee (b. Feb. 1, 1972) is an Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a womens peace movement that brought an end to the Second Liberian ...
Liberian Peace Activist Learns of Nobel Peace Prize While on Book Tour
Soon after she walked into the chapel, Leymah gbowee of Liberia started singing. She was still having a hard time believing she had just won the Nobel Peace Prize. This little light of mine, her voice chimed, as voices in the crowd followed her lead. Ive done almost nothing great, but to let my little light shine -- to let my light shine in - By MEREDITH HOFFMAN
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Nobel Peace Prize winner LEYMAH GBOWEE: Liberia is progressing, but still divided
Liberian peace activist Leymah gbowee was half asleep on a "red eye" flight from New York to San Francisco finishing off her book tour when she found out that she had won the Nobel Peace Prize. Her phone beeped and she looked down to see a text ...
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9 P.M. (13) SYRIA UNDERCOVER As the death toll from the revolution in Syria nears 3,000, Ramita Navai, above, a reporter for Frontline, travels incognito to meet with members of the opposition movement and experiences life as a fugitive when she is trapped in a safe house with three coordinators on the governments most-wanted list. Also, - By KATHRYN SHATTUCK
Yemens Saleh a war criminal?
Pro-democracy activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen shared this years Nobel Peace Prize with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Liberian peace activist Leymah gbowee. Before and during the pro-democracy revolution known as the "Arab ...
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Leymah gbowee was a 17 year-old girl when the war first came to Monrovia. As she says, she turned, "from a child into an adult in a matter of hours." As the war ...
Nobel Prize Winner LEYMAH GBOWEE on Violence and Liberia’s Election
Violence erupted on November 7th, one day before my country was to vote in an important presidential election: incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf faced opposition candidate Winston Tubman of the Congress for Democratic Change. In a nightmarish ...
Jamie Tobias Neely: Nobel Peace Prize winner challenges us
Most of us missed an opportunity to hear a future Nobel Peace Prize winner speak in Spokane in July. Liberia’s Leymah gbowee served as the keynote speaker for a national Lutheran women’s gathering at the Spokane Convention Center.
Liberia : Nobel Winner Gbowee to Tackle Reconciliation in State
Liberian Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah gbowee has the weighty task of trying to reconcile her war-scarred nation, and she plans to do it in jeans and sneakers, with as little bureaucracy as possible. For the activist who led women to defy feared warlords and ...
Nobel winner Gbowee to tackle reconciliation in Liberia - Yahoo! News
Liberian Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah gbowee has the weighty task of trying to reconcile her war-scarred nation, and she plans to do it in jeans and sneakers, with as ...
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah gbowee talks about leading war protests that resulted in the end of the Second Liberian Civil War.. Leymah gbowee by The Daily Show ...
Nobel laureate Gbowee to lead Liberian peace initiative
Liberias joint Nobel Peace Prize winner, womens rights activist Leymah gbowee, will lead a new peace and reconciliation initiative, fellow laureate President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said Friday. "As the dust settles on the electoral season it is time for ...
Nobel laureate Gbowee to lead Liberian peace initiative
Monrovia (AFP) Nov 11, 2011 - Liberias joint Nobel Peace Prize winner, womens rights activist Leymah gbowee, will lead a new peace and reconciliation initiative ...
Among 3 Women Awarded Nobel Peace Prize, a Nod to the Arab Spring
SANA, Yemen -- She is only 32 years old, an outspoken human rights activist and mother of three who was unknown outside her own country until she began leading anti-government protests this year. Yet when Tawakkol Karman was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, she became a standard-bearer for the Arab Spring and for the role of women across - By LAURA KASINOF and ROBERT F. WORTH; Laura Kasinof reported from Sana, Yemen, and Robert F. Worth from Washington. Anthony Shadid contributed reporting from Istanbul and Sarah Lyall from London.
African Women: A Celebration of Achievements
Two Liberians and one Yemeni woman were honored. Two grassroots leaders -- womens rights activist Leymah gbowee of Liberia, and democracy activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen and one president -- Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won this years Peace Prize.
Women, War & Peace Tells The Other Side of The Story
Women are impacted by hunger, rape, displacement and watching their children suffer during war. And as Leymah gbowee points out, they invited to the table afterward to help hammer out peace. "War Redefined" explores the passage of UN Resolution 1325.
TELEVISION IN REVIEW; Making Peace Can Be a Real Battle
WOMEN, WAR & PEACE On Tuesday nights at 10 on PBS stations (check local listings). If an American television network were going to be in cahoots with the Nobel committee, it makes sense that it would be PBS. How else to explain the premiere of the mini-series Women, War & Peace on Tuesday, just days after one of its major figures, the Liberian - By MIKE HALE, JON CARAMANICA and NEIL GENZLINGER
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Biography 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Roberta Gbowee is the executive director of the Women Peace and Security Network Africa, based in Accra, Ghana.
Prize or Not, Liberian Faces Tough Race to Keep Office
MONROVIA, Liberia -- The day began in this battered seaside capital with shouts and drumming for a leading Liberian politician -- but not the one honored with a Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Nobel winner, is lionized by the outside world as the woman who calmed a country ravaged by years of brutal civil war. But - By ADAM NOSSITER; Emily Schmall contributed reporting from Monrovia, and Rick Gladstone from New York.
LEYMAH GBOWEE - Mighty Be Our Powers
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Liberias opposition begins week of mourning with mass rally
I can wait for that day, she said. Johnson-Sirleaf has vowed to launch an inquiry into Mondays events and has placed fellow Nobel laureate and peace advocate Leymah gbowee at the head of a national reconciliation effort. But the CDCs Morlu ...
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Three women win the Nobel Peace Prize for the advacement of womens rights...?
Do cons still think the Nobel Peace Prize is a worthless award? A couple of years ago, thats all you read on here, what a joke the Nobel was.
The 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) award was split three ways between Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, womens rights activist Leymah gbowee from the same African country and democracy activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen — the first Arab woman to win the prize
http://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-goes-womens-rights-activists-103726719.html
Answer: The cons were never RIGHT to begin with about it being a "worthless" reward. It actually comes with a hefty check, so it damn sure is worth SOMETHING!
They were just PO'ed because another democrat got one......and starting fake wars just doesnt cut the mustard. Category: Politics
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Today Liberians go to the polls in what will be a defining moment for their tenuous democracy. In a region bristling with weapons and tension, Liberia has managed eight years of peace and economic growth. The last five of them have been under ...
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LEYMAH GBOWEE - Biographical
The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah gbowee, Tawakkol Karman
Liberias Gbowee sowed peace through feminine havoc
Liberian peace activist Leymah gbowee, joint winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, led women
LEYMAH GBOWEE - The Colbert Report - 2009-14-07 - Video Clip ...
Jul 14, 2009 ... Leymah gbowee organized a sex strike among women until the Liberian civil war ended.
Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Three Activist Women
LONDON -- The Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 was awarded on Friday to three women from Africa and the Arab world in acknowledgment of their nonviolent role in promoting peace, democracy and gender equality. The winners were President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia -- the first woman to be elected president in modern Africa -- her compatriot, the - By ALAN COWELL, LAURA KASINOF and ADAM NOSSITER; Alan Cowell reported from London, Laura Kasinof from Sana, Yemen, and Adam Nossiter from Monrovia, Liberia. Reporting was contributed by Heba Afify from Cairo, Anthony Shadid from Istanbul, Turkey, and Rick Gladstone from New York.
LEYMAH GBOWEE | Women, War and Peace | PBS
Oct 18, 2011 ... How did Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah gbowee manage to get a meeting with former Liberian president and warlord Charles Taylor? ...
THE FEMALE FACTOR; No Longer Is Leadership a Mens Club
NEW YORK -- While progressive trailblazers and feminist groups in the United States are pumping up advocates and activists as the 2012 elections approach, an impressive handful of women -- historic first-timers -- are forging roles on the international scene as leaders of the new century at this time of economic turmoil. In Brazil, President Dilma - By LUISITA LOPEZ TORREGROSA
2011 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to three women?
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their work on womens rights.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the three women "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for womens rights to full participation in peace-building work." The honorees are Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen.
Each is worth a web search. :)
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/07/world/world-nobel-peace-prize/
Answer: Oh - one of those non-women presidents.......
Good work in the humanitarian field...who cares as long as they do the work?
ADDS:- Now for some work on another huge issue:-
http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Liberia.htm Category: Gender & Women's Studies
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The winner of the peace prize Leymah gbowee Nobel speaks about the main protests of war that have provoked the…
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