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Foundation for Human Rights Defense International (FOHRD) Country Director Peter N. Wonokay said the Weah-led Administration is struggling to embrace freedom of expression as enshrined in the Liberian Constitution
Monrovia – The Foundation for Human Rights Defense International (FOHRD) Liberia office has released its maiden national human rights report in which it cites that the Administration of President George Manneh Weah is struggling to embrace freedom of expression as enshrined in the Liberian Constitution.
Releasing his organization’s first national human rights report last Thursday, to the public, FOHRD Country Director, Mr. Peter N. Wonokay stated that one of the key functions of democracy and human rights is freedom of expression and that the Liberian Constitution provides in Article 15 (b) and (c) that the government is supposed to tolerate opposing views, including critical voices of the media and political oppositions.
Ahead of the senatorial election and the controversial referendum the Foundation for Human Rights Defense International (FOHRD), a non-for-profit human rights organization that works to promote equal justice, document and publish cases of religious, political and other discriminations and demand freedom and justice for all, has begun a week long peace awareness in communities to educate electorates to disengage from electoral violence and settle disputes peacefully.
The parade campaign began at the organization’s office in Congo Town, with volunteers distributing stickers with peace messages and bearing inscriptions, “Accept the election results and settle disputes peacefully; Elections are not war, they help sustain our democracy. Say no to election violence.”