{"id":4682,"date":"2011-10-08T20:42:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T20:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2015-08-12T16:18:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T16:18:23","slug":"liberian-woman-nobel-peace-prize-winner-congratulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/liberian-woman-nobel-peace-prize-winner-congratulated\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberian Woman Nobel Peace Prize Winner Congratulated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span lang=\"en\"><strong>07 October 2011<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Media Release by the Women Peace and Security Network-Africa (WIPSEN-Africa)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The Women Peace and Security Network-Africa (WIPSEN-Africa) is today delighted to congratulate its Executive Director, Ms Leymah Gbowee (a warrior who fights with no weapon), for winning the 2011 Nobel Prize for Peace along with Liberia\u2019s President Ellen Johnson\u2013Sirleaf and Yemen&#8217;s Tawakul Karman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Leymah Gbowee mobilized and organized a group of Christian and Muslim women across Liberia that pressured warring factions in Liberia to end the civil war that ravaged the country for over a decade. She fearlessly led women from across the country to defy war-lords and push men to sign the Accra Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2003. The group is most remembered for its long peace protests on a football field and government buildings in Monrovia. Dressed in their white- T-shirts they would pray and sing songs of hope in the hot sun and the heavy rain. Armed with nothing but their sisterhood these women pressured the then President, Charles Taylor to agree to hold peace talks with other warring factions to the Liberian conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">After the war, Ms Gbowee organised women across religious and ethnic divide to help Ellen President Johnson-Sirleaf&#8217;s successful campaign for the presidency in 2005.LeymahGbowee continues to play instrumental role in advancing women\u2019s right in Africa, particularly in war affected West African countries through WIPSEN-Africa, which she co-founded in 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The award is a testament to the bravery and determination of women in Africa to bring peace and democracy on the continent. Until now, only 12 out of 97 Laureates have been women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">WIPSEN-Africa would like to thank the Norwegian Nobel Committee for recognizing women\u2019s role in promoting peace and security in Africa and around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The staff of WIPSEN-Africa and its Board is proud to be associated with one of Africa\u2019s women\u2019s rights icon. To the Laureate, we say \u201cLeymah, today, your determination and persistence to end conflict in Liberia has been recognized by the international community. We congratulate you on winning one of the most prestigious awards. You have done African women proud again!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span lang=\"en\"><strong>07 Octobre 2011<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Communiqu\u00e9 de presse de la paix et de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 des femmes Network-Africa (WIPSEN-Afrique)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Women Peace and Security Network-Africaa (WIPSEN-Afrique) est aujourd&#8217;hui heureux de f\u00e9liciter son directeur ex\u00e9cutif, Mme Leymah Gbowee (un guerrier qui se bat avec aucune arme), pour avoir remport\u00e9 le prix Nobel de la paix 2011 avec la pr\u00e9sidente Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf du Lib\u00e9ria et Tawakul Karman du Y\u00e9men.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Leymah Gbowee a mobilis\u00e9 et organis\u00e9 un groupe de femmes chr\u00e9tiennes et musulmanes \u00e0 travers le Lib\u00e9ria qui ont fait pression sur les factions bellig\u00e9rantes au Liberia pour mettre fin \u00e0 la guerre civile qui a ravag\u00e9 le pays pendant plus d&#8217;une d\u00e9cennie. Elle a men\u00e9 sans crainte des femmes de partout dans le\u00a0pays pour d\u00e9fier les seigneurs de la guerre et pour\u00a0pousser les hommes \u00e0 signer l&#8217;Accord de paix global d&#8217;Accra en 2003. Le groupe est surtout connu pour ses longues protestations de paix sur un terrain de football et des b\u00e2timents gouvernementaux \u00e0 Monrovia. V\u00eatus de leurs T-shirts blancs ils prient et chantent des chansons d&#8217;espoir dans la chaleur du soleil ou sous\u00a0la pluie. Arm\u00e9s de rien mais leur fraternit\u00e9 ces femmes ont fait pressions sur le\u00a0pr\u00e9sident d&#8217;alors, Charles Taylor et se mettre d&#8217;accord pour tenir des pourparlers de paix avec les autres factions bellig\u00e9rantes du conflit lib\u00e9rien.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Apr\u00e8s la guerre, Mme Gbowee a organis\u00e9 les femmes \u00e0 travers une fracture religieuse et ethnique pour aider \u00e0 la\u00a0campagne r\u00e9ussie de la Pr\u00e9sidenteEllen Johnson-Sirleaf \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence en 2005.Leymah Gbowee continue \u00e0 jouer un r\u00f4le majeur\u00a0dans la promotion du droit des femmes en Afrique, en particulier en temps de guerre dans les\u00a0pays ouest-africains \u00e0 travers WIPSEN -Afrique, qu&#8217;elle a co-fond\u00e9 en 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Le prix est un t\u00e9moignage de la bravoure et la d\u00e9termination des femmes en Afrique pour apporter la paix et la d\u00e9mocratie sur le continent. Jusqu&#8217;\u00e0 pr\u00e9sent, seulement 12 laur\u00e9ats sur 97 ont \u00e9t\u00e9 des femmes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">WIPSEN-Afrique tient \u00e0 remercier le Comit\u00e9 Nobel norv\u00e9gien pour reconna\u00eetre le r\u00f4le des femmes dans la promotion de la paix et de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 en Afrique et dans le monde.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Le personnel de WIPSEN-Afrique et son Conseil sont\u00a0fiers d&#8217;\u00eatre associ\u00e9s \u00e0 une ic\u00f4ne du droit des femmes de l&#8217;Afrique. Pour la laur\u00e9ate, nous disons &#8220;Leymah, aujourd&#8217;hui, votre d\u00e9termination et votre\u00a0pers\u00e9v\u00e9rance \u00e0 mettre fin au conflit au Lib\u00e9ria a \u00e9t\u00e9 reconnue par la communaut\u00e9 internationale. Nous vous f\u00e9licitons d&#8217;avoir gagn\u00e9 l&#8217;un des prix les plus prestigieux. Vous avez rendu\u00a0les femmes africaines fi\u00e8res \u00e0 nouveau! &#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,395],"tags":[152,590,654],"class_list":["post-4682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","category-solidarity-messages","tag-leymah-gbowee","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-wipsen"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Liberian Woman Nobel Peace Prize Winner Congratulated - The African Women&#039;s Development Fund (AWDF)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/liberian-woman-nobel-peace-prize-winner-congratulated\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Liberian Woman Nobel Peace Prize Winner Congratulated - 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