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Liberia: CLHRE Wants Ample Focus On Rape
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The Analyst (Monrovia)
3 July 2008
Posted to the web 3 July 2008
The Acting Director of the Center For Law and Human Rights Education (CLHRE) Edward Z. Solu has called on the Liberian government to conduct more education on the rape law.
Suloe made the statement in Harbel, Margibi County during a Civic Education and Capacity-building Workshop. He said the government should provide sufficient education that would help the public to understand the interpretation and procedure of the rape law and its function in the country.
According to the CLHRE acting boss, the government was under oath to provide timely and basic education on the rape law to avoid its misinterpretation, .as it would satisfy the right of the people on information as regards the rape law.
He told the participants who include youth, women groups, and the elderly and local authorities that major gender based violence including rape, forced prostitutions, forced child labor, domestic violence and others form of violence against women and children must be reported to the government.
Suloe indicated that the misuse of young girls as sex mates in schools, offices and other places of works based on monetary influence as well as political power should be curtailed.
The Civil Education and capacity-building workshop, brought together youths, women groups the elderly and local authorities. He said the workshop was intended to raise the level of education on many negative issues that were affecting the co- existing of Liberian people.
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He said both the government and people in decision-making positions in the Liberian society should protect the increasing violence of both the constitutional and God given rights.
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