In order to strengthen the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL), the US State Department should request, and Congress support, a 2008 supplemental budget equal to that granted in July 2007 for the Liberia...
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Liberia: Key facts on supporting the rule of law
The US should support the build-up of a credible police service in Liberia in cooperation with local and international partners. The US should also establish a multi-donor funding mechanism to...
Liberia: Key facts on humanitarian needs
Donor governments must support humanitarian appeals for Liberia and fully fund the 2007 Liberia Common Humanitarian Plan and the WFP appeal. If humanitarian agencies pull out too early, the failure...
Liberia: Lean state-building may well turn mean
A Refugees International team recently evaluated humanitarian conditions for returnees and efforts towards security sector reform in Liberia. While the new government, with the support of the United...
Liberia: Key facts on returns
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Liberian government should survey Liberians who are still displaced within the country, and identify places for them to establish...
Liberia mission to focus on security sector reform and humanitarian needs of returnees
Advocate Melanie Teff and Peacebuilding Program Officer Mark Malan are conducting a mission to Liberia from August 19 to September 3, 2007. The mission will focus on two main issues: security sector...
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Refugee voices: Longing for home in Liberia
Stopping at a small ramshackle settlement alongside a busy highway near the town of Grand Bassam, about an hour outside of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire's capital city, Refugees International staff met...
Liberia: Time for justice
Liberia's former president Charles Taylor, senior military officials and rebel forces were responsible for atrocious human rights violations, including rape and murder, during Liberia's 14-year civil...
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Haiti/Liberia: Influential panel and new report urge action on exploitation by peacekeepers
Refugees International argued in a panel briefing in New York on Tuesday that the UN has to do more to end a "boys will be boys" culture that tolerates sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers...
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Children & displacement
In a significant step, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution that provides concrete proposals to protect children in armed conflict. Refugees International is urging the UN to do...
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Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire: Upcoming elections may exclude displaced persons
National elections in Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire will be held in three months, with the security and stability of West Africa hanging in the balance. While over 1.3 million Liberians have registered...
Liberia: UNMIL strategy needed for internally displaced unable to return home
The United Nations has stepped up efforts to return Liberians displaced by fourteen years of conflict to their home counties. As of June 3rd, the UN had provided final assistance and return packages...
Liberia: Invest in local communities to support return of internally displaced
Liberians who escaped violence during the 14 years of war have started to make the journey home. During the war an estimated 500,000 Liberians fled the conflict to live in internal displacement...
Liberia: Mission to focus on return of displaced people for October elections
Refugees International (RI) advocates Sally Chin and Mamie Mutchler and Dan Wolf and Deborah Terry of the George Wolf Operating Foundation are conducting a humanitarian assessment mission to Liberia...
Liberia: On the road in Nimba County
Driving to Liberia's border with Côte d'Ivoire is difficult. Radioing ahead to UNHCR, the Refugees International team was warned that one of the two roads to Butuo was inaccessible as a bridge was...
Liberia: Extremely vulnerable to HIV
"AIDS is going to be a big problem in Liberia," said the doctor in Nimba county. "We are seeing full blown cases of AIDS but there is nothing we can do for them. We can't test them to see if they...
Liberia: Payments to disarmed child soldiers create protection problems
Although UN Security Council resolution 1509 mandated that specific attention be paid to child and women combatants in Liberia's disarmament programs, the planners of the disarmament, demobilization,...
Refugee Voices: "Take Liberia out of Monrovia"
The phrase "Take Liberia out of Monrovia" is carefully painted on a gas station's wall in the town of Saniquelle in Liberia. The remaining portion of the gas station's wall shades more than thirty...
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Liberia: Ivoirian refugees left for 6 weeks without food
Despite the United Nations' assessment that host communities in Liberia were unable to provide sufficient food to support the influx of approximately 6,000 refugees from Côte d'Ivoire, the Office of...
Liberia: Mission on the reintegration of displaced persons
Refugees International (RI) Advocates Sarah Martin and Fidele Lumeya are conducting a humanitarian assessment mission to Liberia to assess the needs of displaced persons and returning refugees as...