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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

A photo of a bin of used syringes inside a trailer.

Pandemic report: ‘We are not short on recommendations. We are short on action.’

COVID-19

Dr. Joanne Liu, a member of the Independent Panel for Pandemic and Preparedness Response, discusses the new pandemic report and recommendations on preparedness.

A young child is shown laying on a striped blanket and wearing a mask with a man sitting and facing the opposite direction looks on at the Yangtze River.

Panel suggests WHO should have more power to stop pandemics

COVID-19

Global leaders cannot treat COVID-19 vaccines as ‘apartheid,’ says former Liberian president

COVID-19
Liberia

Liberians go to the polls on Tuesday to pick their first new president in 12 years

Global Politics

Tawakul Karman set to receive Nobel Peace Prize

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Liberia reacts to President’s Nobel Peace Prize

Two Liberian women shared this year’s Nobel Peace Prize with a woman from Yemen. The news provoked celebrations and pride in many parts of Liberia, though not everyone is happy.

Will Nobel Prize winner lose Liberian election?

Despite winning this year’s Nobel Prize, incumbent President Ellen Johnson may not win Liberia’s upcoming election.

2011 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to women activists

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, also of Liberia, and Tawakul Karman of Yemen are the first women to win the Nobel Peace Prize since 2004.

The World

Female Circumcision Temporarily Stopped in Liberia

Conflict & Justice

In Liberia, female traditional leaders who operate powerful secret societies have agreed to shut down “schools” where teenage girls undergo genital circumcision.

TED Talks: Nobel-Laureate Leymah Gbowee on Peace in Liberia, and the World

Leymah Gbowee, a speaker at TED2012, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her pivotal role with Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, the women’s peace movement that, in 2003, helped end the four-year-long Second Liberian Civil War. She shared the award with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first female president of Liberia. In […]

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