{"id":859,"date":"2007-07-27T18:40:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T16:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-archive\/859"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:05:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:05:27","slug":"liberian-womens-initiative-lwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=859","title":{"rendered":"Liberian Women&#039;s Initiative LWI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linked with <a href=\"http:\/\/word.world-citizenship.org\/wp-archive\/1450\">Mary Brownell &#8211; Liberia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This group has not its own website, but is named on others (some with excerpts):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cddghana.org\/ngod.asp?ng=44\"><br \/>\nGhana Center for Democratic Development CDD-Ghana<\/a><br \/>\nMission Statement of LWI: To engage in educational activities promoting nonviolent conflict resolution and civic education.<br \/>\nA brief statement of Activities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sustained campaign, uniting Liberian women from all sectors of society, to bring an end to the country&rsquo;s civil war;<\/li>\n<li>It has directed its activities at major players in the Liberian conflict, including West African political leaders, officials of the United States, and the UN;<\/li>\n<li>Prior to 1997 democratic elections, it played a major role in bringing about disarmament, and engaged in voter education activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contact Information: 11 Broad Street, PO Box 1063, Monrovia-Liberia, Tel &#8211; 231 227 095.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hri.ca\/organizations\/viewOrg.asp?ID=8404\">Human Rights Database HRI<\/a>: Background  &#8211; Following the signing and subsequent breakdown of the Peace Agreement in 1993-4, LWI was formed by Liberian women from all walks of life, with the aim of fostering disarmament, peace and free and fair elections. Currently, LWI runs programmes aimed at community-building, civic education and advocacy. &lsquo;Bridges to Peace&rsquo; is aimed at informal female leaders in five communities in Monrovia, to prevent conflicts from growing out of hand by getting people to cooperate on solving problems in the community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-r.org\/our-work\/accord\/liberia\/civic-initiatives.php\">Civic initiatives in the peace process<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/disarmament.un.org\/gender\/note2.htm\">Disarmament UN.org<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"AWDFhttp:\/\/www.awdf.org\/pages\/campaign_detail.php?id=2\">African Women Development Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linked with Mary Brownell &#8211; Liberia. This group has not its own website, but is named on others (some with excerpts): Ghana Center for Democratic Development CDD-Ghana Mission Statement of LWI: To engage in educational activities promoting nonviolent conflict resolution and civic education. A brief statement of Activities: Sustained campaign, uniting Liberian women from all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=859\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Liberian Women&#039;s Initiative LWI&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15023,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/15023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}