Gender Issues

Paynesville - The Girls for Change Organization has successfully winded down its two months long Safer School Campaign under the Youth Education for Active Citizenship and Gender Equality Project (YEG) benefiting about six (6) schools…
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FIRING BACK: "I normally would not do this as I definitely prefer to not respond to any form of grandstanding  but rather concentrate on my work. But this is a very necessary quid pro quo that comes as a result of the unwarranted bully…
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Monrovia – In the wake of the increasing waves of rape cases against women and children, a group of Liberians, predominately young people, have petitioned the 54th National Legislature to broaden its oversight responsibilities in…
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CAREYSBURG – Patience Kamara, 25, is a Muslim who is the Assistant Town Chief of Urey Farm community in Careysburg. Patience never thought she would be elected as a community leader at a young age. Now, she is making decisions to…
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As a campaigner for more women participation in national politics, Madam Siaway-Teah said she was convinced that this is the right time for her to stand up and make her dream and vision a reality Paynesville – The President of the Women…
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The project was designed for the purposes of creating awareness and consulting stakeholders in remote and hard to reach communities in rural Liberia about the laws as well as increase their understanding, access, and utilization of the…
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MONROVIA – The Organization for Women Empowerment (OWE) attention has been drawn to the heartless, inhumane attacks on childhood and womanhood by men in the constant habit of sexually abusing women and girls.
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Monrovia - First Lady Clar Marie Weah is challenging religious institutions to get involved in the campaign to end all forms of sexual gender-based violence in Liberia.
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Monrovia - As the special senatorial elections and referendum draw near, a member of the African Women Leaders Network chapter (ALWN) has called on all women in the country to work in transforming the status of women.
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Ms. MacDella Cooper: “If you are not in the fight against rape you are a rapist; and if you are in the elected position we will get you out because people didn't elect you to sit there and be silent. They elected you to fight their right."…
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