{"id":202796,"date":"2025-07-19T09:09:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-spotlight-initiative-to-end-violence-against-women-and-girls-launched-in-sierra-leone\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:09:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:09:49","slug":"sierra-leone-spotlight-initiative-to-end-violence-against-women-and-girls-launched-in-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-spotlight-initiative-to-end-violence-against-women-and-girls-launched-in-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: Spotlight Initiative to End Violence Against Women and Girls Launched in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Freetown, Sierra Leone \u2014 The Government of Sierra Leone has officially launched Spotlight Initiative, the UN high-impact initiative to end all forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">The launch at the New Brookfields Hotel on Tuesday 8 July united government ministries, including the Chief Minister, the Minister of Gender and Children&#8217;s Affairs and the Minister of Health; the European Union; UN agencies, representatives from the global Spotlight Initiative; the Rainbo Initiative; civil&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507180070.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freetown, Sierra Leone \u2014 The Government of Sierra Leone has officially launched Spotlight Initiative, the UN high-impact initiative to end all forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG). The launch at the New Brookfields Hotel on Tuesday 8 July united government ministries, including the Chief Minister, the Minister of Gender and Children&#8217;s Affairs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202797,"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":[1109],"tags":[258,256,7010,9890,6456,6572,257,6571,1135,254,5124,2148,6524],"class_list":["post-202796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-girls","tag-initiative","tag-launched","tag-leone","tag-news","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spotlight","tag-violence","tag-women"],"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\/202796","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=202796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}