Liberia

Liberia

Liberia

Liberia

Liberia, Kenya.

I went to Northern Liberia.

We have Liberia. We have Congo.

I traveled to Iraq, Afghanistan and Liberia.

They called their new country the Republic of Liberia.

Liberia had been torn apart by civil strife for decades.

Eventually, opposing forces in Liberia were pushed to hold peace talks in Ghana.

Liberia is now home to an all woman United Nations contingent of Indian peacekeepers.

In Liberia, for example, the teenage pregnancy rate is three to every 10 girls.

Right now in Liberia, what do you see as the main issue that troubles you?

Who cares about the Congo, the Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, all of these strings of places that

So what then distinguishes the Israeli Palestinian conflict from that in Northern Ireland, or the civil war in Sudan from that in Liberia?

This contingent seems to be quite lucky, and it has not sustained any casualties, even though dozens of peacekeepers have been killed in Liberia.

In the peak of our activism, the minister of Gender Liberia called me and said, Leymah, I have a nine year old for you.

When she made her presidential address, she acknowledged these brave women of Liberia who allowed her to win against a football star that's soccer for you Americans no less.

Among those who've helped open my eyes to a third way are a devout Muslim in Afghanistan, a group of harmonizing lesbians in Croatia and a taboo breaker in Liberia.

It's not enough to say you have two Nobel laureates from the Republic of Liberia when your girls' kids are totally out there and no hope, or seemingly no hope.

Liberia has been devastated by one of Africa's bloodiest civil wars, which has left more than 200,000 people dead, thousands of women scarred by rape and crime on a spectacular scale.

You can't see her, because she's buried under that green grass in a little village in Liberia, because she died in three days from diarrhea the Hershey squirts, the runs, a joke.

And the women of Liberia then mobilized in support of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a woman who broke a few taboos herself becoming the first elected woman head of state in Africa in years.

In 2007 I went to Liberia, where a group of my friends and I did an independent, self funded film, still in progress, on a very legendary and brutal war lord named General Butt Naked.

And one of the guys who already had a seat was very because Liberia has one of the strongest rape laws, and he was one of those really fighting in parliament to overturn that law because he called it barbaric.