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Rape, A Real National Emergency?

Since rape was declared a national emergency, it has been given even less attention by the president and officials of government. I am very disappointed in the president and the Liberian legislature. They have failed women and girls in this country. There’s absolutely no vision for the protection of women and children in Liberia. Year in and out, they continue to be vulnerable. They are at high risk in our society, yet we don’t see their protection as a priority.  Continue Reading

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Mr. President, Fix Your Rape Flyer

Where has your “Feminist in Chief” cape been when Liberian women dressed in Black every Thursday for the last few years to call attention to this issue? Where was it yesterday and today, August 25 & 26, 2020, when hundreds of protestors came to give you our petition to end rape in Liberia and you were nowhere to be found, even though you were informed beforehand? Continue Reading

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What Liberia Did Not Learn From Its Ebola Response

My friend was right. If Liberia had a culture where we vehemently confronted our traumas, we would have leveraged the skills and strategies we gathered from dealing with Ebola. Those strategies would have urged our leaders to firmly protect our borders, put in place measures to strengthen our health sector. But instead, our borders were left vulnerable. Our leaders underestimated the intensity of the Coronavirus. Continue Reading