Ms. Una Kumba Thompson

- Una Kumba Thompson on Liberian women and African women's solidarity
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Una Kumba Thompson

Una Kumba Thompson talks about the special challenges facing Liberian women and calls for greater solidarity amongst African women.
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*Una Kumba Thompson is CEO of Women of Liberia Peace Network (WOLPNET).

"These women are living with a serious scar and they are not getting access to treatment," said Una Thompson, head of WOLPNET.

"These women are living with a serious scar and they are not getting access to treatment," said Una Thompson, head of WOLPNET.

The President and CEO of the WOLPNET, Ms. Una Kumba Thompson, said her organization, through the support of OXFAM-GB, has established six support-centers in Montserrado and Bong counties respectively.She revealed that the centers would provide counseling and motherly-love for women and young girls affected from GBV and sexual exploitation.

Ms. Thompson however noted that in the implementation of the project styled "Intensive Sexual Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Management," and
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Further pointing out that the centers are the first of its kind in the country and intended to solve most of the difficulties encountered by women, Ms. Thompson explained that the communities identified are infested areas where women experience sexual abuses by men on daily basis.

We will make those violent men to understand that women are their sisters, mothers, and partners in progress and that they should be treated with love and tender care; not to beat or force them into romantic exercises," she furthered.

Ms. Thompson is meanwhile urging community dwellers to make maximum use of the centers, in order to reduce the high rate of sexual abuse against women.