Monrovia – Human Rights Defenders and Civil Society Organizations in Liberia have debunked Liberia’s Human Rights report presented to theUN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group. “We wanted to hear from the government to give a true accounts of the human rights situation on the ground, but unfortunately, the government’s presentation did not admit to the unaccounted human rights violation that are occurring in the country,” Dempster debunked. However, harmful traditional practices that border on human rights violations, such as “Trial by Ordeal” have been criminalized, he said. “These are important elements of human rights that we think the government should have addressed long since. Because the enjoyment of human rights is just not the ordinary citizens, it extends to individuals and others within the border”.

Source: Front Page Africa November 03, 2020 00:11 UTC