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Genocide Prevention Rather Than Response Gains Favor In Policy Circles
Huffington Post Contributor | John Heffernan | Posted 06.22.2009 | World
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Last week, the United Nations Security Council traveled to Ethiopia, Rwanda, Congo and Liberia to discuss Africa's hotspots -- areas that are threaten...
Foreign Aid, Arms Shipped By Same Firms: Report
Inter Press Service | Thalif Deen | Posted 06.12.2009 | World
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UNITED NATIONS, May 12 (IPS) - The military conflicts raging across Africa, Asia and Latin America have been significantly influenced by the heavy ...
Child Soldiers on Film: ""Johnny Mad Dog" (II)
Karin Badt | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
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The director's commitment to these children -- both on-screen and off -- is evident, both in his craft and action: proceeds from the film will be used to help the child soldier actors rehabilitate themselves.
Sharing the good news with you
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.18.2009 | Home
The Worldfocus signature series on Liberia’s Long Road Back featured uplifting stories on African women making a difference. Though ...
Liberian rape victim and child bride, now grown, speaks out
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.18.2009 | Home
The Worldfocus signature story Former child soldiers, sex slaves recover from Liberia's war explored how women were taken prisoner during Liberia&#...
Former child soldiers, sex slaves recover from Liberia?s war
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.17.2009 | Home
Worldfocus has chronicled Liberia’s struggles to recover from a bloody civil war that spanned 14 years in the signature series Liberia's Long R...
Full Show: April 15, 2009
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.16.2009 | Home
Watch the show from Wednesday, April 15: Another pirate attack, humanitarian aid in Gaza, an English smear campaign and tackling violence against wom...
Tune in: Online radio show on African women in power
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.15.2009 | Home
Over the past several decades, women politicians have made strides in Africa. The share of parliamentary seats held by women increased from 7 percent...
Women?s movement transforms post-war Liberia
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.15.2009 | Home
For a 14-year period ending in 2003, Liberia struggled with a brutal civil war, a crippled economy and not much hope. That was until a women’s m...
An impatient Liberia confronts high expectations, sacrifice
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.14.2009 | Home
In this extended interview, the U.S. Ambassador to Liberia Linda Thomas-Greenfield discusses the positive example of Liberia’s President Ellen J...
News quiz: G20, Zimbabwe and workers in India
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.04.2009 | Home
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's First Elected Female President, Lifting Up Liberia (VIDEO)
WorldFocus | Lynn Sherr | Posted 05.02.2009 | World
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Fractured by a 14-year civil war, Liberia is trying to pick up the pieces, facing staggering unemployment and lackluster infrastructure. Halfway in...
Food instability and poor infrastructure affect Liberians
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 04.23.2009 | Home
A woman carries food from an aid organization in Liberia. Though the civil war ended years ago, Liberia remains politically and economically ...
More Than a Conference: Liberation, Leadership, and Liberia
Amy Coen | Posted 04.12.2009 | World
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Monrovia, Liberia, March 7, 2009. The "International Colloquium on Women's Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace and Security 2009"...
An Historic Gathering in Monrovia
Amb. Swanee Hunt | Posted 04.10.2009 | World
You exclude women, you fail. You empower women, you empower a nation. Women never forget that life is our most precious asset.
Women's Conference Leaves Liberians Out In The Cold
Press Wire | Richard Powell | Posted 04.07.2009 | World
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An international conference aimed at the empowerment of women has caused a stir in the host country's capital Monrovia after slums were bulldozed to g...
Breaking the Resource Curse: Concession Negotiation in Liberia
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 04.06.2009 | World
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Sub-Saharan Africa possesses some of the highest concentrations of natural resources. Yet, for all the mining and extraction, relatively precious few of the benefits trickle down to its citizens.
Fighting Child Labor, Trafficking In Liberia (SLIDESHOW)
Huffington Post Contributor | Emily Holland, International Rescue Committee | Posted 04.05.2009 | World
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Colonel Richard Gonkarnue has one of the toughest jobs in Nimba County, Liberia: to combat child labor and trafficking at one of several checkpoints ...
MacDella Cooper: Liberia's Angel
Naomi Hirabayashi | Posted 04.02.2009 | Living
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As an idealistic twenty-something, I'm fascinated by people who aren't placated by mere good intentions but consciously shape their lives to mobilize ...
Liberian Child Soldiers Trade Grenades For Makeup Brushes
Allafrica.com | Posted 03.05.2009 | World
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Monrovia -- Tony Clarke traded two grenades for a set of combs, makeup brushes, nail varnish and a short course in cosmetology. "They help me beaut...
Charles Taylor's Son Get 97 Years In U.S. Torture Case
McClatchy Washington Bureau | Jay Weaver | Posted 02.09.2009 | World
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The son of ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced to 97 years in prison on Friday in a landmark torture case that grew out of a U.S. inves...
Liberian Boy Gets New Face
NY Daily News | SARAH ARMAGHAN and OWEN MORITZ | Posted 01.16.2009 | World
An engaging 7-year-old boy from Liberia got the ultimate Christmas gift Monday: a new face. Laughing and smiling, Samuel Urey walked out of the NYU...
Strong Hearts
Cheryl Saban | Posted 01.09.2009 | Style
I can't think of a more loving holiday gift than Lovetta Conto's necklaces. She is selling these necklaces to raise money to help other refugees and displaced kids.
Memo to Americans Spying for Another Country or Considering It
Keith Thomson | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics
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A recent Defense Department report cites cases of 173 Americans arrested between 1947 and 2007 for passing state secrets to al-Qaeda, China, Egypt, Cuba, Poland, Germany, Russia, North Korea, France, among others.
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