Liberia
For the period of 2019-2023
Objectives/aims:
1.- Prevention of relapse into conflict and all forms of structural and physical violence against women and girls, including SGBV violence and the threat of terrorism.
2.- Protection women, young women and girls’ safety, physical and mental health are assured,and their human rights respected.
3.- Participation of women, young women and girls in decision-making processes related to the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts and countering terrorism.
4.- Reliefand recovery - women and girls’ specific needs are met in relief, recovery and peacebuilding interventions, including under threat of terrorism and especially those most vulnerable to violence.
Commentary:
Liberia’s civil wars lasted 14 years and ended in 2003 with the signing of the Accra Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). Since then, the country has moved from a transitional government through three presidential elections, in 2005, 2011 and 2017. The first post-conflict elected President was Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who was also the first woman President in Africa.
Civil Society:
The second generation of Liberia’s National Action Plan was revised andwritten after receipt of recommendations from civil society.
Women in Peacekeeping:
Liberia’s NAP lists the existing and prevailing structural barriers to women’s participation in peace and security processes which include:
· weak and inadequate representation of womenin national and local decision-making processes;
· insufficient and unequal access to natural andeconomic resources;
· strengthening of gender discriminatory relations within society and the family, and
· a poorly developed community infrastructure.
As a consequence there has been an increase infeminisation of poverty – creating barriers to women’s participation in all spheres of public life and activities.
UN Peacekeeping Statistics:
Contingent: 14 out of 105
Experts: 3 out of 4
Staff Officers: 1 out of 12
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