Gender Issues

MONROVIA – Ahead of the 16 Days of Activism, the UN Women recently donated many assorted items for female inmates at the Monrovia Central Prison and for others at other prison facilities across the country.
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MONROVIA – The visiting United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Africa on Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage Jaha Dukureh has underscored the need for women and girls across the African continent, including Liberia to be…
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MONROVIA – The United Nations Women Goodwill Ambassador for Africa on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and child marriage, Jaha Dukureh, has spoken about introducing a program called initiation without mutilation in efforts to end FGM in…
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BONG COUNTY – Naymote Partners for Democratic Development has hosted a three-community-level dialogue focusing on women’s political participation and preventing violence against women in electoral processes in Bong County. The…
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MONROVIA – It seems that Deputy Speaker Fonati Koffa’s order to the Liberia National Police to arrest Zoe Famatta Musa has gone unheeded.
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MONROVIA – A local women's rights advocacy group named Organization for Women and Children (ORWOCH) has ended one-day stakeholders meeting to ensure legal aid and legal response for violence against women participating in the upcoming…
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MONROVIA – The story of 11-year-old Tracy (not her real name), who was kidnapped and circumcised, claimed the attention of Deputy Speaker J. Fonati Koffa, who met with authorities at the Ministry of Internal Affairs. During the meeting,…
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Gbarpolu County – The campaign against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Liberia seems to be leading to a complete fiasco as some lawmakers in the country are said to be heavily facilitating the practices. Despite Merck Foundation’s…
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L-R: Elizabeth Greene and Florida A Clarke medica Liberia (mL) in partnership with medica mondiale e.V with and supported by Comic Relief will jointly strengthen the capacities of three different Sierra Leonean partner…
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MONROVIA – Women's Rights Organizations have Called on President George Manneh Weah to set a high standard for public officials in the country. The organizations stressed that the government should implement several…
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