The Rural Human Rights Activists Programme (RHRAP) ended a two-day working session with 30 community residents from Gbarnga including 19 of its Zonal Heads, as well as Citizen Action Committee-CAC, religious, youth and women leaders.
According to a RHRAP release dated October 29, 2024, the working sessions were intended to engage community residents who are rights holders to contribute to assessing the justice sector based on their experience with the police, court, prisons, amongst others.
The project, which was under the theme, “Promoting Accountability in the Justice sector to Enhance Democratization in Liberia,” was also intended to contribute to promoting accountability within Liberia’s justice sector at various levels.
The release said that the two-year intervention funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) will assess the various sectors of Liberia’s justice system including engaging the three branches of government.
The intervention is also engaging community residents mostly in rural communities to identify various issues affecting the dispensing of justice and at the same time providing residents with capacity building supports that enable them to demand accountability from justice providers using the appropriate mechanisms and methodologies available to them.
The findings from the assessments will be used by RHRAP and other interested CSOs, as well as international partners to develop genuine intervention that will seek to address recommendations of the assessment by engaging the appropriate sectors.
RHRAP is a national human rights organization with over 25 years of experience working on the promotion and protection of fundamental human rights, justice and democratic values at both local and national levels.
