Woman Rights & Feminism. Leymah Gbowee. Leymah Roberta Gbowee (born 1 February 1972) is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's peace movement that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. Her efforts to end the war, along with her collaborator Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, helped usher in a period of peace and enabled a free election in 2005 that Sirleaf won.
This made Liberia the first African nation to have a female president.[1] She, along with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkul Karman, were awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work. "[2] An article on Gbowee in O: The Oprah Magazine painted this backdrop: Early life[edit] Leymah Gbowee was born in central Liberia on 1 February 1972.
The THRP's offices were new, but the program had a history. Starting with trauma healing[edit] How to describe the excitement of that first meeting...? Leading a mass women's movement[edit] Leymah Gbowee's acceptance speech at the JFK Profile in Courage Award® ceremony, May 18, 2009. Pray the Devil Back to Hell: Video and Media. Leymah Gbowee appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on November 14, 2011. In this unedited, extended interview, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee discusses leading the women's peace movement that ended Liberia's second civil war. Pray the Devil Back to Hell had its U.S broadcast premiere on Oct 18th as Episode 2 of the groundbreaking special series Women, War & Peace on PBS. Below are two previews of Women, War & Peace: first a two-minute trailer, then a 16-minute highlight reel. Please enjoy and share — both are freely embeddable! Visit the PBS Video page to watch shorts, previews, and full episodes!
Watch the full episode. See more Women War and Peace. Watch the full episode. Back to top of page back to top of page How it Began Sex Strike The Women on Charles Taylor Confronting Charles Taylor Liberia Is Their Home Showdown Leymah Gbowee's acceptance speech at the JFK Profile in Courage Award® ceremony, May 18, 2009. excerpt posted with permission by Fork Films LLC Copyright © John F. Leymah Gbowee - Mighty Be Our Powers. Leymah Gbowee’s Nobel Lecture | Pray the Devil Back to Hell Blog. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Distinguished Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Global Leaders, Women of Liberia, Women of Africa and Women of the world. This is the day the Lord has made and I and my sisters globally will rejoice and be glad in it. Today marks a very historic day as the Nobel Peace Prize is being awarded to me, Tawakul, and my own President and Mother, Mrs.
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in honor of all women globally. I am humbled and honored to have been selected by members of the committee and I receive the Prize in the name of women who continue to work for peace, equality and justice across the World. A moment of silence for Prof Wangari Maathai, Ms. Dheka Abdi, Ma Wleti Freeman, Ma Asata Kandakai, Ma Fatu Bah, Rebecca Flomo, Ma Klunah Brown, the seven Ivorian Women who lost their lives during the post elections violence and women across the world who lost their lives whilst fighting for peace, social justice and equality.
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