Law Enforcement is CardinalAllison, who is also a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia, called on the Legislature to enact legislations that will protect women’s property rights while ensuring implementation, monitoring, and compliance. “Discriminatory laws, customs, biased attitudes, unresponsive authorities, and ineffective courts are some of the factors that contribute to women’s property rights violations.”Madam Allison pointed out key steps that the government can take to protect women’s property rights. She mentioned the promotion of public awareness campaigns to inform the people mainly in rural areas about women’s equal property rights. “Single women, divorcées, widows, and women from minority groups are more vulnerable to land rights being violated,” Madam Nagbe said. “When men and their power are being threatened by women’s independence to property rights, men tend to use violence.

Source: Front Page Africa August 07, 2020 10:41 UTC