The Executive Director of a local women advocate group called the Zorzor District Women Care, Madam Agnes Kortimai, said that Liberian women, especially the rural women have been treated as personal property by their husbands.

"Women are not men's property; they should treated with care and love," she declared.

Madam Kortimai said most men in both urban and rural parts of the country violate the rights of women on a daily basis, with the intention that women are subject to their order or directive, and have no right to question them, as if women are not part of the decision making of the family and the community.

Speaking to The Analyst yesterday at her Carey Street Office, Madam Kortimai disclosed that recently her organization, with support from National Endowment Democracy (NED), hosted a three days workshop with the women and stakeholders of the Koniah Town, Zorzor District in Lofa County.

According to her, the purpose of the workshop was to educate women and participants the role women have in advocacy, in decision making amongst others topics.

She noted that the six local dialects of the county were fully represented, with well trained interpreters who made the message to reach the needed audience.

The ZODOCA Boss noted that workshop was interactive that elderly women of 45 - 57 age-group were eager to question and know the basic rights of women.

She pointed out that community dwellers and participants were also taught how to resolve their differences without the means of violence.

"The time for violence has come and gone, the countrymen must now engage one another constructively on the round table discussion," she quoted one speaker as saying at the workshop.

Mrs. Kortimai advised and appealed to men who are in the habit of committing gender based violence to desist because the world is fast turning into a global village, and societies are now improved in which everyone including the children have their rights and have the right to fully participate in the decision of the home.