Monrovia, June 6 -- UN Women Liberia Country Representative Madam Comfort Lamptey wants the Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL), to consider providing legal literacy for Liberia's rural women, declaring that justice cannot be truly accessible until every woman understands her basic rights.

Delivering the keynote address at the induction ceremony of AFELL on Friday, May 30, 2025, Madam Lamptey proposed: "It will be important for AFELL to increase your footprint in rural Liberia by incorporating locally based female lawyers in your membership, and in addition you could consider providing legal literacy to uneducated women and girls."

She framed this as Liberia's next critical frontier in gender justice, noting that while AF...