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Gender Minister: Gender-Based Violence Remains Widespread in Liberia

MONROVIA – Liberia’s Minister of Gender, Children, and Social Protection Williametta  Saydee Tarr has disclosed that Gender Based Violence (GBV) against women and girls remains one of the widespread human rights violations in Liberia and other c

Liberia: 3-Year Ban on Sande Society in Montserrado

Liberia: 3-Year Ban on Sande Society in Montserrado
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Progress toward Ending FGM in Liberia? | Liberian Observer

Chief Zanzan Karwor: ‘We need plenty sacrifice to say goodbye to our tradition’ As the Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection in collaboration with UN Women, observed the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation in the country, there were telling signs that the prospects of eradicating of the practice from Liberia appear encouraging and painstakingly so. In spite of significant amounts of awareness raised over the years about the harmful nature of the practice of FGM, the National Traditional Council of Liberia has been entrenched in the practice. “We are traditional people, but this is something we have been inside for a very long time. So if your want for us to cancel our society, we need to do plenty sacrifice to say goodbye to our tradition,” the head of the Traditional Council, Chief Zanzan Karwor, told a United Nations-sponsored annual awareness against FGM over the weekend.

Hopes traditional leaders in Liberia will help stamp out FGM

Hopes traditional leaders in Liberia will help stamp out FGM Issued on: 06/02/2021 - 17:53 In Liberia, Ma Zoe, a well-known female traditional priest, frowns on the campaign to end female genital mutilation. © RFI/Darlington Porkpa 5 min Traditional leaders in Liberia are resisting international pressure to end female genital mutilation – performed for centuries by the country’s ancient secret societies – but campaigners say they re hopeful that newfound dialogue will help rally support from within. Advertising Read more The fight against FGM has taken on greater urgency in Liberia since executive orders banning the practice expired a year ago. Both campaigners and members of the government have been engaging with traditional groups in an effort to end the practice, which results in longterm physical and mental damage.

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