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Sonkay Town, Montserrado County – The Chairperson and National Council of Chiefs and Elders of Liberia (NACCEL), in an effort to abolish female
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MONROVIA – In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly designated February 6th each year as the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female
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Chief Zanzan Karwor, head of traditional Council along with Gender Minister Sonkay Town, Montserrado County– The Chairperson and National Council
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MONROVIA – The YMCA of Liberia through its Bread for the World (Bftw) sponsored Civil Peace Service Program (CPS), unites in the campaign against
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Monrovia – Every year the European Union Delegation to Liberia commemorates 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence with the government
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GARPUE TOWN, Grand Bassa County – Schools are now open in Liberia, but 14-year-old Tutugirl has not joined her classmates. Tutugirl says it has
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Mamie Toe is the Head of FGM practitioners in River Cess County. Photo by Rita Jolgbe Doue. Traditional Leaders Say They Will Not Stop Female Genital
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Monrovia – An assertion, attributed to Madam Massa Kandakai, Montserrado County’s Chief Female Traditional Leader, that the practices of Female
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MONROVIA – Ahead of the 16 Days of Activism, the UN Women recently donated many assorted items for female inmates at the Monrovia Central Prison
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MONROVIA – The visiting United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Africa on Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage Jaha Dukureh has underscored
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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
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BONG COUNTY – Naymote Partners for Democratic Development has hosted a three-community-level dialogue focusing on women’s political
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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. Zoe
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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
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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.