{"id":218905,"date":"2026-01-02T22:33:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cop30-a-turning-point-missed-and-a-line-drawn-for-frontline-women-defenders\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T22:33:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:33:40","slug":"liberia-cop30-a-turning-point-missed-and-a-line-drawn-for-frontline-women-defenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cop30-a-turning-point-missed-and-a-line-drawn-for-frontline-women-defenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: COP30 &#8211; a Turning Point Missed &#8211; &#8211; and a Line Drawn for Frontline Women Defenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Monrovia \u2014 COP30 has come and gone in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil&#8211;another global climate summit marked by lofty promises and limited political courage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The declarations were bold, the speeches were polished, and the Global Mutir\u00e3o package was presented as a breakthrough. But for the women who defend forests, land, and water with their bodies and their lives, the outcomes fall far short of what justice demands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The world cannot continue applauding incremental progress while frontline women defenders face&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601020313.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"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>Monrovia \u2014 COP30 has come and gone in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil&#8211;another global climate summit marked by lofty promises and limited political courage. The declarations were bold, the speeches were polished, and the Global Mutir\u00e3o package was presented as a breakthrough. But for the women who defend forests, land, and water with their bodies and their lives, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218906,"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":[258,256,52820,5101,14096,17240,4712,1107,6402,17045,257,7827,254,15335,6524],"class_list":["post-218905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cop30","tag-defenders","tag-drawn","tag-frontline","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-line","tag-missed","tag-news","tag-point","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turning","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\/218905","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=218905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}