MONROVIA – Campaigns to increase women’s representation in political representation to 30 percent are picking up steam again in the country with Deputy Speaker J. Fonati Koffa promising to robustly advocate with his colleagues and support the Women Legislative Caucus for its passage. He furthered that, the 30% women political participation cannot be archieved by just a goal setting, but a firm legal freamework that will bring the 30% to reality through legislation and statutory mandate. He said this is no international pressure but a domestic pressure as numbers of women groups have overly called on government and international partners to address the 30% women political participation in the body poltics of Liberia. International partners noted that despite years of effort to bring more women to elective office, including the legislature, their representation remains low. The international partners further expressed appreciation for the efforts of the Legislature in formulating people-centered and progressive gender-responsive legislation.

Source: Front Page Africa February 18, 2021 05:48 UTC