Liberia: Women's Land Rights Awareness Campaign Bears Fruits

Apr 19, 2022
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Adah Johnson,* 56, from Flumpa, Nimba County in north-eastern Liberia is a beneficiary of the continued awareness sessions on the rights of women to land and participation in land governance decision-making processes conducted by a local non-governmental organization, Rights and Rice Foundation (RRF), with support from UN Women Liberia.When Ms. Johnson lost her husband in September 2022, her relatives evicted her from her house and gave her the option to marry her late husband's brother so that she could continue staying at the house. She was not interested in this arrangement. In contrary to this proposed arrangement and in accordance to the Land Rights Act of 2018, on the demise of a partner or spouse the living spouse and their children have the right to all the property left behind by the deceased.