{"id":229452,"date":"2026-04-04T02:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberian-disability-coalition-takes-rights-fight-to-the-un\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:05:13","slug":"liberian-disability-coalition-takes-rights-fight-to-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberian-disability-coalition-takes-rights-fight-to-the-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberian Disability Coalition Takes Rights Fight to the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Coalition of Organizations of Persons with Disabilities in Liberia has officially submitted a comprehensive report on the state of disability rights in the country to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The report was presented via a virtual platform, with key representatives from various disability groups speaking on behalf of their groups. Lovetta Savage represented the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, Abraham Kanneh spoke for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604030548.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>The Coalition of Organizations of Persons with Disabilities in Liberia has officially submitted a comprehensive report on the state of disability rights in the country to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Geneva, Switzerland. The report was presented via a virtual platform, with key representatives from various disability groups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229453,"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":[258,256,5780,9669,4345,1107,1090,257,5100,254,5056],"class_list":["post-229452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coalition","tag-disability","tag-fight","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberian","tag-news","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takes"],"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\/229452","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=229452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}