Sierra Leone: LAB's Anti-Elections Violence Platform Campaign Enters Final Phase

The Anti-Elections Violence Platform campaign of the Sierra Leone Legal Aid Board has entered its final and crucial phase following successful presidential runoff. This phase of the campaign will last for four months, to end in July.

The Anti-Elections Violence Platform is an initiative of the Board aimed at ensuring credible and peaceful elections. Prior to the March 2018 elections, the platform organised community outreach events on the Public Elections Act 2012, civic responsibility and human rights. They also mediated disputes, especially those with the potential to cause violence, political intolerance, undue influence on members of the community to vote in a particular way and the destruction of campaign materials of opponents.

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