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Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is the first woman to be elected president of Liberia. For more than three years, she has been trying to make governmental agencies more efficient. She was successful in cancelling international debt and promote investment. But Liberia's political institutions are not exactly helping out. The parliament, a number of ministries, the justice system, and security services seem partially...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
NEW YORK, July 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Amnesty International USA
will host public screenings of a new documentary film, Women of Liberia:
Fighting for Peace, by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Jonathan Stack, on
July 22-29 in New York and Washington, DC with discussion afterward by
three visiting former female child soldiers who are featured in the film.
The women will discuss the social stigma...
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Stevie Wonder's Personal Blog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
UN EXPERT PRAISES RIGHTS PROGRESS IN LIBERIA, RAISES CONCERN AT CRIME LEVELS New York, Jul 18 2008 12:00PM Five years after the peace agreement that ended its civil war, Liberia has made accelerated progress on several human rights issues, but there are still serious concerns about the rule of law, according to a United Nations expert who has just completed a two-week visit to the country. "The installations...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
If we learned one thing here yesterday, it is that obscurity and celebrity are just different shades on the same spectrum. All it takes to bring them together is unreasonable expectation. We may think we know an awful lot more about Andrew Flintoff than Darren Pattinson, whose names stood out like neon when the team sheet was handed out on a dank, melancholy morning in Leeds. But just as the superhero...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Following the confirmation by the Liberian Senate of a bill re-proposing the death penalty for certain crimes, Amnesty International called on President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to veto the bill.
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Wampum (Free subscription) | yesterday
I'm watching the first democratically elected woman president in Africa. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, is a speaker at the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, which C-SPAN 2 is carrying.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has met and congratulated the grand prize winner of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) Naming Competition, Dr. Shadrack R. A. Bryant, for his winning entry, Lift Liberia. Dr. Bryant, an educator and devout Christian, professed that with God's grace, Liberia will rise again.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Rejean Labonte, Representative of the Governance Economic Management Action Plan (GEMAP) at the National Port Authority (NPA) has resigned, this paper has reliably learnt.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Fatta Sackie, a 17-year-old girl came to Monrovia through the influence of her uncle to further her education, but as it stands, things have gone bad and the uncle is no more.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The International Bank Liberia Limited has launched a new branch at the Caldwell Junction on Bushrod Island. The launching of a news branch is part of the bank's expansion of banking services across Monrovia.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The mandate of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), by the provision of the Accra Peace Accord, which established it, should be over by the end of the year, pending the conclusion of its work, but that seems to be impossible, owing to the workload before it.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
A special commemoration program for victims and survivors of the July 29, 1990 St. Peter's Lutheran Church Massacre started here Monday with calls by the Catholic Church in Liberia for the establishment of a war crimes tribunal in Liberia after the TRC.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The opposition Liberty Party is yowling at the Liberian government for the prevailing 'state of insecurity' occasioned by upsurge of criminal activities across the city and other parts of the country.
