{"id":197340,"date":"2025-05-03T18:39:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T16:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-rights-activists-call-on-boakai-to-fund-war-crimes-court\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T18:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T16:39:40","slug":"liberia-rights-activists-call-on-boakai-to-fund-war-crimes-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-rights-activists-call-on-boakai-to-fund-war-crimes-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Rights Activists Call On Boakai to Fund War Crimes Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">Activists and human rights actors advocating for the establishment of a war and economic crimes court in Liberia have called on President Joseph Boakai to provide full funding to enable the court to bring justice to victims of the country&#8217;s 14-year civil war, which lasted between 1989 and 2003, killing more than <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonviolenceproject.wisc.edu\/2024\/02\/04\/how-women-ended-liberias-civil-war-women-of-liberia-mass-action-for-peace\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">200,000<\/a> people and displacing many.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">During a national transitional justice coordinating meeting, the activists reiterated their demand, urging the president to go beyond issuing an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505020454.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists and human rights actors advocating for the establishment of a war and economic crimes court in Liberia have called on President Joseph Boakai to provide full funding to enable the court to bring justice to victims of the country&#8217;s 14-year civil war, which lasted between 1989 and 2003, killing more than 200,000 people and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[6008,258,256,7324,6880,6185,1922,5111,4712,1107,257,5100,254,6618],"class_list":["post-197340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-activists","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-call","tag-court","tag-crimes","tag-fund","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}