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Shelter for Abused Women Host Candlelight Vigil The Analyst ( Monrovia) Women under the auspices of the Liberia Shelter for Abused Women and Children yesterday evening held a candlelight vigil in front of the Monrovia City Hall on Tubman Boulevard.
The vigil which brought together tens of women from several communities across Monrovia was geared towards memorialising victims of rape and other forms of sexual violence in Liberia. Gathered on a part of the boulevard that is overlooked by the Headquarters of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), the women made their opposition to the scourge of rape known by shouting slogans indicating that they wanted rape to stop immediately in the Liberian society.
Speaking to her fellow protesters, the Founder and President of the Liberia Crisis Center for Abused Women & Children, the organization that gave birth to the Shelter, told her fellow protesters that their vigil was going to define the fight against rape in the Liberian society.
Mrs. Beverly Goll-Yekeson noted that the alarming nature of rape cases and cases of other forms of sexual abuse in the country will have to be eradicated if the Liberia is to stand any chance of making a clean break with its violent pass. Mrs. Yekeson said, with the marked increase in rape of minors in the country, the society cannot fail to take notice and put in appropriate actions aimed at stumping at the bad practice.
She called on the government to take serious steps in ensuring that the fight against gender based violence is won in Liberia. Mrs. Yekeson said the government must hasten the trial of rape cases so that convictions arising out of such cases can serve as deterrence to other would be perpetrators of rape.
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