Carter Center Project Assistant, Madam Gbani N. Colliee, urges women to stand up and make use of the Freedom of Information law of Liberia. Speaking to journalists recently at the just ended FOI training here, she says most women are afraid to seek inquiry when something happens, because often men misinterpret them, saying “many at times when women go in search of information, some men can start talking that they have gone to look for man.”

Madam Colliee encourages Liberia women to get at the frontline and start to make use of the Freedom of Information law, noting that women these days still have that cultural knowledge that men should always be in the frontline, while they sit in the back and do domestic work.

She observes that women lack self-confidence to step out where their male counterparts are to make inquiry, challenging women to be a part of every process that men are involved, stressing that there is nothing a man can do and a woman cannot do.