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Liberian women take active role in reconstruction process: Liberian women organised a meeting in Ghana on 15 August to devise strategies to involve women in the reconstruction of the strife-torn country.(Issues)

Publication: WE!
Publication Date: 01-SEP-03
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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For three years since 1999, Liberia was torn by an insurgency that has devastated the country, leaving thousands dead and further crippling an embattled nation that has laid in ruins since 1996 when a 7-year civil war launched by then rebel leader Charles Taylor (elected President in 1997) In...

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...ended. early August 2003, the rebel groups succeeded in forcing warlord-president Taylor to relinquish his presidency and seek asylum in Nigeria. With the end of Taylor's regime, the women are demanding greater involvement in the incoming government and in the postconflict peace-building initiatives.

The assembly, called the Golden Tulip Consultative and Strategic Planning Meeting, was...

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