Monrovia – The most talked about Domestic Violence Bill, which has suffered so many setbacks from the 52nd and 53rd Legislatures, was finally given an Executive Order late Friday evening (January 19) by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. “Yes, it is true that President Sirleaf this evening gave an Executive Order on the original Domestic Violence Bill, which includes FGM [Female Genital Mutilation] that was removed from the draft bill before the 53rd Legislature. The Executive Order is to last for a year, before anything else is done with the bill,” confirmed Presidential Press Secretary Jerolinmek M. Piah, when news began to filter in that the President had issued a last-minute Executive Order. The women have a lot of work to do for the one-year period that the Executive Order is supposed to be active. According to the UN Resolution 1325 on Ending Violence Against Women, it calls on member countries to ban FGM as violence against women.

Source: Front Page Africa January 20, 2018 16:09 UTC