Background
Woods was born in Monrovia on May 1, 1964.
Woods was born in Monrovia on May 1, 1964.
In 1994, he founded the Forefront Organization, which documented human rights abuses during the Second Liberian Civil War. He was one of twenty children. Woods has worked tirelessly in the field of human rights and has been vigilant in exposing child labor practices and injustice throughout Liberia.
Active even while a student, he was first arrested in 1981.
During the Liberian civil war in 1989 Woods escaped to Ghana, but returned to Liberia in 1991 and founded a human rights organization, the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission. He operated a radio program aimed at exposing improper arrests, unlawful executions and informing citizens of their civil rights.
In 1994 Woods created the Forefront Organization in order to shed light on human rights abuses during the Second Liberian Civil War. In 2006, Woods became the Minister of Labor under President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, only to become Minister of Public Works in 2009 following a cabinet shake-up.