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Wide of US President Barack Obama and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia before bilateral meeting, zoom into ObamaUPSOUND Obama: \"I want to officially welcome President Sirleaf to the Oval...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eFILE: Washington, DC - 27 May 2010\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of US President Barack Obama and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia before bilateral meeting, zoom into Obama\u003cbr/\u003eUPSOUND Obama: \"I want to officially welcome President Sirleaf to the Oval Office. I have been an extraordinary admirer of her work.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of Obama and Sirleaf\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Her own personal story obviously is extraordinary -- somebody who came from being a prisoner to the first female president not just of her own country but also on the continent.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. SUNDBITE (English) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In 2006 when our government stopped, we inherited a broken country -- devastated by war, people displaced, infrastructure broken, institutions dysfunctional - but we said that we were going to make Liberia rise again.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Soweto, South Africa  - 12 July 2008\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide interior of the Walter Sisulu Hall at the start of the annual Nelson Mandela Lecture, Sirleaf on stage \u003cbr/\u003eUPSOUND: (English) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian President: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I would be remiss if I did not express my solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Cutaway of people applauding\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close-up of Mandela applauding\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Until the situation in Zimbabwe is resolved, the entire region will feel the effects of instability and a dream of democratic and accountable government will remain unfulfilled.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Cutaway of audience applauding\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid-shot of Sirleaf and Mandela on stage\u003cbr/\u003eOslo, 7 October 2011\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Thorbjoern Jagland, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is Africa's first democratically elected female president. Since her inauguration in 2006, she has contributed to securing peace in Liberia, to promoting economic and social development, and to strengthening the position of women.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Sanaa, Yemen  - 24 January 2011 \u003cbr/\u003e12. Yemeni activist Tawakul Karman after release, getting onto bus, surrounded by protesters \u003cbr/\u003eOslo, 7 October 2011\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Thorbjoern Jagland, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the most trying circumstances, both before and during the 'Arab Spring', Tawakkul Karman has played a leading part in the struggle for women's rights and for democracy in Yemen.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: New York City - 24 June 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of the press conference with Executive Director, Women Peace and Security Network Africa, Leymah Gbowee\u003cbr/\u003e15. Audience\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (English) Leymah Gbowee, Executive Director, Women Peace and Security Network Africa:\u003cbr/\u003e\"By the time you don't raise this issue, you've given rise to an increased sexual violence and rape in post-conflict, and that's the situation we are faced with in Liberia. It's almost like impunity, amnesty, rape is something that you can continue to do get away with because no one will ever raise the issue. And for those women and other groups going through peace talks right now, it's about time that we step away from that lie, that if you raise this issue, it's going to jeopardise the smoothness of the process.\"\u003cbr/\u003eOslo, 7 October 2011\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) Thorbjoern Jagland, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Leymah Gbowee mobilised and organised women across ethnic and religious dividing lines to bring an end to the long war in Liberia, and to ensure women's participation in elections. She has worked to enhance the influence of women in West Africa during and after war.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Monrovia, Liberia - 16 January 2006 \u003cbr/\u003e18. STILL shows Ellen Johnson Sirleaf being helped with sash by Liberia's senior ambassador-at-large George W. Wallace Jr. during her inauguration at the Capitol Building in Monrovia\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Cambridge, Massachusetts - 18 September, 2006\u003cbr/\u003e19. STILL shows Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, addressing the audience at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Tripoli, Libya - 30 November 2010\u003cbr/\u003e20. STILL shows President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf during second day of third Africa-EU Summit in Tripoli, Libya. \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Sanaa, Yemen - 27 June 2011\u003cbr/\u003e21. STILL shows Yemeni activist Tawakkul Karman chanting slogans during anti-government protesters against President Ali Abdullah Saleh\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Sanaa, Yemen - 26 January 2011\u003cbr/\u003e22. STILL shows Karman holding rose during anti-government protest, days after her brief detention for leading protests\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Boston, USA - 18 May 2009\u003cbr/\u003e23. STILL shows Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee after she and other activists were awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum\u003cbr/\u003e24. STILL shows Caroline Kennedy, president of the Kennedy Library Foundation, handing award to Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee \u003cbr/\u003eThe 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and democratic activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their work on women's rights, which the prize committee described as fundamental to the spread of peace around the world.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 72-year-old Sirleaf is a Harvard-trained economist who became Africa's first democratically elected female president in 2005.\u003cbr/\u003eLiberia was ravaged by civil wars for years until 2003 and is still struggling to maintain a fragile peace with the help of UN peacekeepers.\u003cbr/\u003eSirleaf was seen as a reformer and peacemaker in Liberia when she took office. \u003cbr/\u003e\"We inherited a broken country - devastated by war, people displaced, infrastructure broken, institutions dysfunctional,\" said President Sirleaf in the meeting with US President Obama in Washington in 2010. \"But we said that we were going to make Liberia rise again,\" she said. \u003cbr/\u003eThe committee cited Sirleaf's efforts to secure peace in her country, promote economic and social development and strengthen the position of women.\u003cbr/\u003eSirleaf is running for re-election this month and opponents in the presidential campaign have accused her of buying votes and using government funds to campaign. \u003cbr/\u003eHer camp denies the charges.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Since her inauguration in 2006, she has contributed to securing peace in Liberia, to promoting economic and social development, and to strengthening the position of women,\" said the Chair of the the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjoern Jagland said on Friday as he announced the winners.\u003cbr/\u003eKarman is a 32-year-old mother of three who heads the human rights group Women Journalists without Chains. \u003cbr/\u003eShe has been a leading figure in organising protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh that kicked off in late January as part of a wave of anti-authoritarian revolts that have convulsed the Arab world. \u003cbr/\u003e\"In the most trying circumstances, both before and during the \"Arab spring\", Tawakkul Karman has played a leading part in the struggle for women's rights and for democracy and peace in Yemen,\" Jagland said of Karman on Friday.\u003cbr/\u003eGbowee, who organised a group of Christian and Muslim women to challenge Liberia's warlords, was honoured for mobilising women \"across ethnic and religious dividing lines to bring an end to the long war in Liberia, and to ensure women's participation in elections\".\u003cbr/\u003eSpeaking at the press conference in New York in 2006 in the role of Executive Director of the Women in Peacebuilding Network Africa, Gbowee stressed the importance of women's involvement:  \u003cbr/\u003e\"In order for 1325 to be effective, women need to be at the negotiation table,\" Gbowee said, \" there cannot be a role for women in post conflict peace building when they didn't have a role during the conflict.\" \u003cbr/\u003eIn 2009, she won a Profile in Courage Award, an honour named for a 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning book written by John F. 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