Name: How women will lead us to freedom, justice and peace | H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Uploaded: 2020-10-24T01:40:12.000Z
Duration: 14 min 12 s
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And I do believe more countries ought to try that.

we faced the tremendous challenges of a post-conflict nation:

and women had been the ones to resolve it.

A President of the United Nations General Assembly,

a president of the University of Liberia.

And I wanted to put women in all top positions.

And so I settled for putting them in strategic positions.

I recruited a very able economist from the World Bank

Another to be the minister of foreign affairs,

to reactivate our bilateral and multilateral relationships.

who had suffered so much during the civil war.

to be able to ensure the protection and the participation of women.

that there were not enough women with the experience

our economic growth had peaked at nine percent.

Our infrastructure was being reconstructed at a very fast pace.

We had good relationships with the International Monetary Fund,

Our women could sleep peacefully at night again,

as I promised them during my first inaugural address.

And in our legislature, in my first term,

because the environment was increasingly toxic.

I had my fair shares of criticism and toxicity.

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How women will lead us to freedom, justice and peace | H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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