A human rights advocacy group, Equality Now, has charged the Liberian government to act swiftly on anti-Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, laws that have been forgotten.

The immediate past President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf issued an executive order last year January banning the practice for a year as she prepared to leave office.

The Jan. 2018 order has since expired with the George Weah-led government yet to make any commitments to extend it, a move that worries Equality Now, as expressed in a press conference last week.

Equality Now commended the efforts of traditional rulers in liaising with relevant pressure groups and stakeholders to seek a permanent solution to the act that is predominant in conservative parts of the West African country.

Equality Now is an international human rights organization that has been using the law to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world since 1992.

FGM is largely barred across the sub-region and through much of sub-Saharan Africa. Activists hold that cases of cuttings are undertaken but often secretly.

A deadly incident was reported in Burkina Faso last year when girls suffered complications and some died from an operation that went bad. Hence, Governments have usually promised to bring perpetrators to book.