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Liberia: Women in Peacebuilding Network gets assurance from gov t
By Eric Pervist
FEB 18, 2021
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection welcomes the reassurance from the presidency to the Women in Peacebuilding Network, that they would not be relocated from their Airfield prayer ground.
The ministry s assurance comes following ill-intended rumors that the Government is seeking to relocate the women prayer group due to the construction of the Invincible Eleven Park by President George M. Weah.
These rumors are false and misleading and the ministry frowns at individuals who have misinterpreted the President s assertion, with the intentions of creating unnecessary panic amongst the valiant women prayer warriors. President George Manneh Weah as a devoted son and grandson to both his mother and grandmother has showcased respect, land unflinching support of the agenda of Women of Liberia and in all of their endeavors. The President was clear in his speech on the day of
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Cambodian villagers pray during a rally against the destruction of the Prey Lang forest, in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 18 August 2011, TANG CHHIN SOTHY/AFP via Getty Images Civil society groups in Cambodia denounced the arrest of five forestry activists who were collecting evidence of widespread illegal logging inside the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary.
This statement was originally published on cchrcambodia.org on 9 February 2021.
We, the undersigned groups, urge the Ministry of Environment to stop their campaign of harassment against local forestry activists and community members. On Friday morning, local officials working for the Ministry of Environment arrested five forestry activists who were wrapping trees in Buddhist cloth and collecting evidence of widespread illegal logging occurring inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary.
Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee s inspirational quotes on peace, leadership, and women’s rights
These quotes by Leymah Gbowee, who led a peaceful women’s movement during the civil war in Liberia that ended in 2003, will inspire you.
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Many women have emerged as peacebuilding heroes from the civil wars in Liberia.
Activist and social worker Leymah Gbowee is one of them who led a non-violent movement by uniting the Muslim and Christian women to challenge a 14-year-old civil war in 2003.
A founding member and Liberia Coordinator of the Women in Peacebuilding Network (WIPNET) of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), Leymah received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.
Traditional Leaders and Female Zoes in Ganta, Nimba County signed a deceleration to suspend the practice of Sande Bush School in Liberia for 1 year in Liberia
The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP-Liberia), over the year, has worked with six Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in contributing to the achievement of outcome-3 of the Spotlight Initiative, being implemented by UN Women.
WANEP is a Regional Peacebuilding institution with its Women in Peacebuilding Network (WIPNET Program serving as one of the strongest women human rights and gender advocacy in Liberia, with a specific focus on women empowerment for national leadership, and speaking against gender-based violence, including rape.