Afric Daily Newspaper- Monrovia:The Collaborating Civil Society Organizations with support from ActionAid Climaxes 16 Days of Activism with a Truth Telling Table talk engagement among several Stakeholders in Monrovia, while others are looking forward to Criminalize Female Genital Mutilation FGM.
Speaking at their climax event on Thursday, December 2022, the group said only by truth telling or through truth telling they can eradicate and mitigate Gender based violence and climate change respectively.
According to them, their focus is to end Gender Base Violence, Female Genital Mutilation and mitigating climate change across the Country.
During the program, ActionAid Liberia urged every Liberian to take action to ensure massive nationwide awareness across all communities to promote prevention and response efforts addressing Sexual Gender Based Violence SGBV and other forms of violence against women, including FGM and Child Marriage.
They also encourage the public to continue the advocacy for the protection of women and girls rights in all sectors of the society through massive media engagement.
“Make your contribution to end negative and patriarchal cultural practices and beliefs. Raise your voice against harmful practices like early child marriage, harmful traditional practices that affect the rights of the girl child”, they noted
Serving as one of the Panelists, the Director of Culture at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mr. William Jallah confirmed the total closure of the Traditional Schools activities including Poro and Sande schools across the Country.
According to him, his Internal Affairs Ministry has created a Gender Bureau to protect Women from FGM among other gender based violence.
Meanwhile, the western Regional Coordinator of the National Civil Society Council, Mr. Lincoln Johnson is calling on the stakeholders to make FGM a Criminal offense follow by a drastic measures as the only way to end the Female Genital Mutilation FGM in Liberia.
“He call for the development of role map to report all the FGM cases and Criminalize FGM in Liberia”, Mr. Johnson noted.
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