Liberia: political parties ignore 30 percent women commitment saying women aren't ready

With less than three months until vital presidential and legislative elections, Liberia's political parties have defied their own commitments to fill 30 percent of their candidate ranks with women.

Women made up just 153 (15 percent) of the 1,030 aspirants who registered as candidates according to the provisional list released by the National Elections Commission last week. There is a very real chance that Liberia's legislature, at 11 percent, already had the third lowest proportion of women in Africa, could drop even further.

Click here to read the full article published by All Africa on 24 July 2023.