Source: All Africa
The Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL), a local professional female lawyers organization, has reported that there is a rise in cases involving domestic violence and other harsh treatments against women and children in the country.

A report compiled by AFELL, covering the period December 2010 to May 2011, records 35 cases of domestic violence meted out against women by their spouses. The organization's President, Cllr. P. Teplah Reeves, told this paper recently in Monrovia that the issue of domestic violence in the country is very appalling.

However, she disclosed that AFELL was working with aggrieved couples in the country to put a stop to the increasing cases of domestic violence that were being brought to her organization's attention on a monthly basis.

She then used the occasion to call on members of the Liberian society to join the fight aimed at putting a stop to domestic violence and other violent crimes being perpetrated against women and children in Liberia.

Meanwhile, the AFELL 2011-2011 report among other things catalogues other aggressions being meted out against women and children in the country as abandonment, persistent non support, rape and extra marital affairs.

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