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How are women in Liberia coping with rising food prices in their country?
The looming global food crisis is causing families around the world to feel the pinch of higher food prices. In Liberia, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf says the crisis affects specific commodities, one of them being rice. A long-term solution, she says, lies in increasing domestic production. Ben Malor, who is with the UNMIL, the UN Mission in Liberia, recently caught up with three Liberian women - Augusta, Eva and Patience -- who told him how they're coping with rising rice and other food prices.
Population Award honours reproductive health gains
The opening strains of Song of Peace by Jean Sibelius greeted listeners as they gathered to celebrate the awarding of the prestigious 2008 Population Award. The prize, established in 1981, honours outstanding contribution to the awareness of population questions or to their solution. This year's laureate in the individual category is Dame Billie Miller of Barbados, former Deputy Prime Minister and Senior Minister of Foreign Affairs of Barbados.
Mia Farrow visits the Cenral African Republic
After spending a week in the Central African Republic, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow is asking the international community to lend more support to the tiny, impoverished nation. In the following report prepared by Guy Deagan of UN Television, we hear the details of her visit from Mia Farrow herself.
Producer: Gerry Adams
(duration: 14'00")
