Tag Archives: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

What We Missed

By Vanessa | Published: December 12, 2011
Tweet Pics via NYT. Leymah Gbowee, Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Tawakkol Karman were (officially) awarded the Nobel Peace Price on Saturday. WOW. Lowe’s and tons of other companies have apparently pulled advertising from the reality show All-American Muslim after caving in to a blatantly bigoted campaign. At Feministing Community, Shaunna Thomas and Nita Chaudhary [...]
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Three women working towards equality win the Nobel Peace Prize

By Vanessa | Published: October 7, 2011
Tweet Pics via NYT. Left to right: Leymah Gbowee, pic by Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, pic by Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images; Tawakul Karman, pic by Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters This is pretty friggin’ awesome: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, her compatriot and “peace warrior” Leymah Gbowee and Yemen’s Arab Spring [...]
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