by admin_HRWF | Feb 3, 2022 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
130 women rights groups call on the government to criminalize FGM Equality Now (01.02.2022 – https://bit.ly/3uprQLZ – Following yet another tragic death in Sierra Leone due to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), women’s rights organizations across the...
by admin_HRWF | Jul 24, 2021 | Human Rights in the World
Sierra Leone abolishes death penalty MPs vote unanimously for abolition, making it the 23rd African state to end capital punishment By Saeed Kamali Dehghan The Guardian (24.07.2021) – https://bit.ly/3iL3gOg – Sierra Leone has become the latest...
by admin_HRWF | Mar 31, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Amnesty International (30.03.2020) – https://bit.ly/3bGXJmq – Following today’s ministerial statement to overturn with immediate effect the ban on pregnant girls attending schools, Marta Colomer, Amnesty International’s Acting Deputy Regional Director for...
by admin_HRWF | Dec 16, 2019 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Sierra Leone government policy banning pregnant girls from attending school breaches the right of girls to access education, according to a ruling handed down by the Economic Community of Economic State (ECOWAS) Court of Justice on Thursday, and said that this policy...
