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Global Witness
18.11.2009 A group of NGOs has lodged a legal complaint claiming that one of the world's leading timber wholesalers bought timber from Liberian companies that provided support to Charles Taylor's brutal regime.
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From: Greenpeace International
Related topics/regions: [Conflict] [Law] [Forests] [Corporations]
Image: Global Witness
Global Witness
28.08.2009 The credibility of Liberia’s forestry reform programme - one of the most comprehensive ever undertaken in the tropics - has been brought to the point of collapse, claims an international environmental lobby group.
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Image: Global Witness
06.08.2009 Photographer Tim Hetherington’s exploration of Liberia between 2003 and 2007 brings an extraordinary range of characters to life: warlords and presidents, environmental activists and traditional
hunters, political hustlers and democratic visionaries.
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Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom]
13.07.2009 A new transparency law in Liberia covering natural resource industries sets an impressive benchmark for global efforts to fight the natural resource curse and should be emulated by other countries, says an international which campaigns to prevent natural resourced-related conflict and corruption.
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23.01.2009 Hordes of caterpillars have appeared in northern Liberia, destroying crops and vegetation, sending villagers fleeing from their homes, and raising the spectre of a food, health and environmental emergency in West Africa, claims the UN.
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Related topics/regions: [West Africa]
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
11.12.2008 Liberia’s largest-ever cultural festival will take place over three days in the capital Monrovia from 11 December, featuring performers from across Liberia and surrounding countries and expecting to attract over 30,000 people.
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Image: Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf © United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
Jan Egeland of the UN admires a pot made in a displaced peoples' camp in northern Uganda, 2006
17.09.2008 Corruption is a serious threat in humanitarian assistance, Sarah Bailey of Britain’s Overseas Development Institute (ODI) told a meeting in London.
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From: OneWorld UK
Related topics/regions: [Afghanistan] [Sri Lanka] [Uganda] [United Kingdom]
Image: Jan Egeland of the UN admires a pot made in a displaced peoples' camp in northern Uganda, 2006 © Tugela Ridley / United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Center for Global Development senior fellow, Steve Radelet.
29.02.2008 Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and analyst Steven Radelet look at the growth of democracy and economic activity in sub-Saharan Africa -- particularly the case of Liberia -- and explain how progress can be sustained and consolidated.
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From: Center for Global Development
Related topics/regions: [Africa]
Image: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Center for Global Development senior fellow, Steve Radelet. © Center for Global Development
Breaking the chains of debt.
01.11.2007 Following in the footsteps of the governments of China, Germany, Nigeria, and the United States, the World Bank finalized its cancellation of Liberia's debt this Tuesday.
From: The News (Liberia)
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Image: Breaking the chains of debt. © Christian Aid
In the past couple of years, Liberians have witnessed that "Life can change."
17.10.2007 After a 14-year civil war was brought to a halt by UN peacekeepers, Liberians elected Africa's first female head of state. Under President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf the country is slowly but surely pushing forwards in terms of economic growth, democracy, and education, writes Steve Radelet from Liberia.
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From: Center for Global Development
Image: In the past couple of years, Liberians have witnessed that "Life can change." © Center for Global Development
15.10.2007 The need for the Liberian government to provide jobs, education, and rehabilitation, while fighting widespread corruption, is more important than ever now that the civil war has ended, says Liberian journalist Cholo Brooks.
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From: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Image: © Ruthie Ackerman / Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Suah, smiling about her new eye.
10.10.2007 Suah, a young Liberian woman who lost an eye at the age of two, was denied entrance to nursing school because of her disability. But thanks to a floating clinic complete with ophthalmologists, Suah received a prosthetic eye and was able to get a job teaching others about HIV/AIDS.
From: Mercy Ships
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Image: Suah, smiling about her new eye. © Mercy Ships
01.10.2007 Disabled youths -- victims of the Liberia's gruesome 14-year civil war -- play soccer at home and around the world, yet continue to sleep on the streets. The Pulitzer Center's Liberia project is examining child soldiers' reentry into society through blogs, photos, videos, and other reporting.
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From: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
UN peacekeepers arresting Charles Taylor.
06.06.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Jun 5 (OneWorld) - Both the United Nations and some of the world's leading human rights organizations are welcoming the start of the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [Sierra Leone] [Human rights] [Justice and crime] [Law] [Arms & military] [United Nations]
Image: UN peacekeepers arresting Charles Taylor. © United Nations
29.05.2007 Slavery isn’t dead, says Robtel Neajai Pailey: its modern-day variant is just found on a different kind of plantation.
From Red Pepper
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Liberia's president is calling on world leaders to support a vigorous arms trade treaty.
24.04.2007 UNITED NATIONS, April 24 (OneWorld) - As the United Nations prepares itself to take further action on a proposal to adopt an arms control treaty, civil society groups are stepping up pressure on governments to take a firm stand.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [Human rights] [Activism] [Civil society] [Justice and crime] [Law] [Arms & military] [Security] [United Nations]
Image: Liberia's president is calling on world leaders to support a vigorous arms trade treaty. © United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
25.02.2007 Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf recently travelled to Washington, DC. One year into her presidency, Sirleaf reflected on her government’s achievements, and the many challenges her country must still confront.
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From: Center for Global Development
Image: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf © Center for Global Development
12.02.2007 How much of the goodwill showered to Liberia since the inauguration of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf will be translated into action for reconstruction, asks Abdoulaye W. Dukulé as a donors' meeting opens in Washington.
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From: allAfrica.com
08.02.2007 "The Bush administration's repeated pledges of support for the reconstruction of Liberia must now translate into action," said a campaigner outside the U.S. Treasury Wednesday, calling for debt relief at next week's donors' conference.
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From: Africa Action
Related topics/regions: [United States]
08.12.2006 The U.S.-born son of former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor has been charged with torture in a U.S. court for his actions in that war-torn country.
From: Human Rights Watch
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