Has the Ibrahim Prize set the bar too high for its own good?
Liberia’s President and Africa’s first female head of state, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, has said that she was eager to see a woman in the White House.
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/ 24 November 2011
Despite boasting Africa’s first female president and a Nobel prize for women’s rights, Liberia’s women are still vulnerable to the threat of rape.
Liberia buzzed with election fever as Nobel laureates, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and women’s activist Leymah Gbowee took to the streets.
Three women who have campaigned for rights and an end to violence in Liberia and Yemen, including Liberia’s president, have won the Nobel Peace Prize.