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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.

2011 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to women activists

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

Reaction From Liberia on Nobel Prize

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Three women awarded Nobel Peace Prize

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Sheryl WuDunn on this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners

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Sheryl WuDunn and her husband, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, wrote “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” which advocates improving the conditions of women in order to improve the world. We talk with WuDunn.

Rebuilding of Liberia After War

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Gbowee discusses her new memoir “Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer and Sex changed a National at War.”

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