YESLiberia is a United States based not-for-profit organization with a 501(c)(3) status. Since the year 2013, YESLiberia has consistently sponsored under privileged and bright students at schools in underserved communities such as GSA Road and Nickley Town in Montserrado County, Unification Town and Kakata in Margibi County and Ganta in Nimba County.

Several students in the past years have benefited from YESLiberia scholarship program which covers registration and tuition fees. YESLiberia is proud that some of these students are today studying at the University of Liberia and other tertiary institutions in Liberia.

The scholarship program works through local Liberian volunteers to identify and recruit needy yet deserving and talented students for scholarship placement. For the most part, these students are sponsored to enroll in schools of their choice and are poised to remain on the scholarship so long as they maintain a minimum grade point average as required by YESLiberia.

The scholarship program is sponsored by donors residing in the United States, and it is part of YESLiberia’s programs designed to develop the minds and improve literacy levels of young Liberian citizens. Of particular importance is the program’s overarching objective of preparing Liberian youth for leadership and service to their communities. We thank our many donors who continue to contribute to the work of supporting the education of Liberian children.

The list of students recruited for the YESLiberia Scholarship beginning this academic year is as follows:

Mr. Cox was a renowned Liberian civil engineer and architect.  His first major project was the Cox Office Complex at Gaye Town, Sinkor Old Road, which was first leased by the Liberian government for the Institute of Public Administration (IPA).

He later did construction work on many government projects, including the Ministry of Finance Annex, which he helped build.

William Cox joined many of his BWI 1959 classmates in the erection, on the BWI campus of the class’s 50^th Anniversary Project, the R. Vanjah Richards Memorial Monument, which the Class built in 2009 on the BWI campus.  It is acclaimed to be the most beautiful and history-rich monument on the campus.  Vanjah Richards taught the Class of ’59 Arts and Crafts during their freshman orientation when they entered BWI in February, 1956.

The then President of Liberia, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, attended the Class’s 50^th Anniversary Celebration on the BWI campus in November 1959.  Madam Sirleaf’s then-husband, Doc Sirleaf, taught the class Reserved Officers Training Corps (ROTC) as well as Agriculture in the 1950s.  

The class had four sets of siblings—Ayi and Francis Ajavon, Cyrus and Richelieu Dennis, Marie and Stanley Stewart and Robert and Winston Tubman. 

Other classmates included William Cox, Paul Perry, Jerry Sauser, Elijah Taylor, Elsie Weah, Samuel Ricks, Harwene Tyee, Ellen Burke Fallah Prall, Rachel Smith Tubman, Gladys Hampton, Clarence Moore, Robert Phillips, James Kwia, Eric Eastman, Anthony Togba, Thomas Roland, Abayomi Glover, Sneh Gurley, Joe Robertson and Kenneth Best.     

The Chief Justice, claiming that he had been accused by unnamed individuals that while serving as Research Coordinator at the Bureau of Corrections, Ministry of Justice, in 1979, he was involved in the torture of political prisoners has dismissed the accusations as untrue and intended to injure his reputation.

Although the Chief Justice admitted that the late Gabriel Baccus Matthews, Oscar Quiah and River Gee County Senator, Conmany B. Wesseh were arrested after the April 14, 1979 “Rice Riots” in Monrovia, he maintained that they were not political prisoners, adding that later they were granted executive clemency by President Tolbert.  

In further attempts to justify his claims, Chief Justice Korkpor said he remembered only that a group of people from Maryland County including, Anderson, Yancy, Nyenpan and Taryonoh were arrested, imprisoned and convicted for ritualistic killings.

They were later publicly executed but they were never political prisoners, the Chief Justice said repeating his claims that there were no political prisoners during the Tolbert Administration including those arrested, jailed  and charged with treason in the aftermath of the 1979 “Rice Riots”.

But speaking to the Daily Observer, a former “Rice Riots” detainee and one of those charged with treason (name withheld) has dismissed Chief Justice Korkpor’s claims as untrue.

The former detainee explained that he, along with Samuel Jackson, Conmany Wesseh Bacchus Matthews, etc. were declared wanted men by the Tolbert Government and that their names and photos were placed on Wanted Posters for US$5,000.00 as the individuals who caused the death of the more than 150 persons who lost their lives at the hands of state security forces on April 14, 1979.

He furthered that he was detained at the Monrovia Central Prison (MCP) and placed in a cell for convicted murderers along with Dr. H. Boima Fahnbulleh, James Fromayan, David Karn Karlor, Oscar Quiah, Samuel Jackson and others.

Explaining further, the former detainee said that during the period of his incarceration at the MCP from April 22, 1979 to June 26, 1979, Chief Justice was then serving as Chief of Security and Chief Warden at the Prison.

He had several Corrections Officers under his command, two of which today, are currently practicing lawyers, and they are Augustine Toe and J. Nagbe.

Amongst the Corrections Officers, according to the former detainee, was a young man named Kyne who had the knack of prodding detainees and administering electric shocks with an electric baton (stun gun).

And this happened many times in the presence of Chief Warden Francis Korkpor who never lifted a finger of reprimand against him.

The former detainee also recalled that officers Augustine Toe and Nagbe’s display of empathy towards them often irked then Chief Warden Korkpor to the point where he would order them to oust visitors from the MCP compound before the end of official visiting hours.

Recalling further, the former detainee also revealed that, during that period, the MCP was choked and filled with detainees who had been randomly arrested from around the country. Amongst such individuals was the late Cllrs. Francis Garlawolu and Flawgaa McFarland.

Because of space problems, many of those individuals were locked up in filthy and overcrowded conditions in the notorious and filthy cell known as 4-B, according to the former detainee.

Just how come the Chief Justice does not appear to remember these events was the rhetorical question posed by the former detainee when he declared the Chief Justice (Korkpor) was one of the major actors at the MCP at the time.

The Daily Observer, researching the issue has found out that the Brownell Commission was set up by President Tolbert in the wake of April 14, 1979, “Rice Riots” to probe actual causes of the disturbances and make recommendations to the Government of Liberia.

The Commission, headed by the late Justice Nete Sie Brownell, was composed of distinguished Liberians including former President Sirleaf. That body had determined that GoL was to be held responsible for the disturbances.

It further recommended that as a consequence, all those arrested and detained in connection with the disturbances of April 14, 1979, be granted unconditional General Amnesty.

And delivering an official speech before the National Legislature on June 26, 1979, President Tolbert proclaimed and declared an immediate and unconditional general amnesty and ordered the release of all persons/individuals detained in connection to the 1979 disturbances otherwise known as the “Rice Riots”.

These are what this newspaper would call antecedents in Liberia’s political and legal history.

And for a Chief Justice, especially one who was in one way or the other connected to those tragic historical events of 1979, to feign or claim ignorance not only appears truly disingenuous and indistinguishable from outright lies but also a deliberate attempt to either falsify or provide a revisionist version of history.

Perhaps it may interest Chief Justice Korkpor to know that on April 14, 1979, the founder of the Daily Observer Kenneth Y. Best was also a witness to history as far as some of the developments surrounding April 14, 1979 are concerned.

Mr. Best was the installing officer and guest speaker at the reorganization Congress of the Liberia National Student Union, which was held at the Cuttington University Campus on that fateful day of April 14, 1979.    

A common Liberian saying goes, a liar always says “my witness is too far”. In the case referenced, there are living witnesses to the events of 1979 including former detainees and they are not far and beyond reach.

Perhaps the Chief Justice needs to tell the Liberian people where his witnesses are, hoping that they are neither out of reach, nor too far away to come to his defense.Tell the People the Truth, Mr. Chief Justice. It is your only Defense!

The Supreme Court had earlier withheld ruling by Criminal Court ‘C’ with some modifications that Samukai should restitute the US$1,147,656.35 used from the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) pension money that he [Samukai] says was used on the orders of his boss, former President Sirleaf.  The Supreme Court went further to warn Samukai that if 50% of said amount cannot be paid in six months, he would be incarcerated until full payment is made. 

Samukai was convicted of crimes of theft of property, misuse of public money, and criminal conspiracy along with Joseph P. Johnson, former Deputy Defense Minister for Administration, and James Nyumah Dorkor, former comptroller of the Ministry of Defense.

In his quest to defend Samukai, Senator Wesseh said the Court only found Samukai guilty of a crime but failed to establish why he was convicted. “This decision is rather very unfortunate. I followed it very closely. There is nowhere that the Government has been able to prove or show that Samukai stole money, absolutely nothing it is but just speculative.”

Senator Wesseh is a member of the Unity Party that is also a part of the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP). He is the second notable official of the CPP, after Mr. Benoni Urey, political leader of the All Liberian Party (ALP), to speak in defense of the Lofa County Senator-elect.

Both Urey and Senator Wesseh’s arguments are based on the fact that Samukai acted on the order of his boss, then-President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, commander-in-Chief of the Army Forces of Liberia, to use the money in question for the welfare of the soldiers who were on peacekeeping missions in Mali.

Appearing on the Truth Breakfast Show (TBS) on Truth FM 96:1 on Thursday, March 11, 2021, Senator Wesseh said one of the charges against Samukai is the misuse of a public fund; which the River Gee Senator said is a misplaced judgment because the money does not belong to the public but is a private fund scheme that was not placed in government’s account.

He, like Urey, argued that before the former President could leave office, a consensus was reached with now President George Weah that the current government will inherit the debt owed the AFL, and President Weah’s administration through budgetary allotment has contributed US$460,000 towards this debt.

Senate Wesseh, recalling his time in the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Administration as Minister of State without Portfolio, said, “She took responsibility and I served in her office as Minister of state without portfolio, and part of those things we were dealing with were extra-economic and security issues. So I knew that the decision was taken by the government.”  

According to him, the Sirleaf government did not have the resources to take care of soldiers that were on a peacekeeping mission in Mali; therefore, when the need arose, Samukai was instructed by his boss to use the money.  

“He got instruction from the President of Liberia that there was some money available in a private account to quickly to deal with the problem of our soldiers in Mali, to deal with a problem of wounded soldiers to take them to the hospital because the government did not have the cash,” Senator Wesseh said.                 

Though efforts have been exerted by the Liberian Senate to ensure that Samukai gets the green light to be certificated, the Supreme court has maintained the prohibition filed against the certification of Samukai by the Movement for Progressive Change (MPC), even though the same Supreme Court had given the greenlight earlier that Samukai can be certificated while he settles the payment.

The action of the Supreme Court to halt the certification of Brownie Samukai has created public outcry that many views are suggesting that instead of the high court being independent of the Executive, it is siding with it (Executive) to thwart the independence of the Judiciary on the dictate of the Executive.

Justices of the Supreme Court, having realized that the Judiciary may not be counted among beneficiaries of the US$10.5 million Supplementary Budget just passed by the Legislature, have thrown their voices out to remind the Executive and Legislative branches of govenment not to sideline the third branch of Government.

The Justices, therefore, have resolved to ask the President not to approve the budget if the government did not allot any of the money to the Judiciary this time around.

The Justices vented their anger yesterday when they cited Finance and Development Planning, Minister Samuel Tweah and Justice Minister Musa Dean to explain why the judiciary is left out of the supplementary budget.

Minister Tweah, responding to the question, expressed his innocence of the law that gives his ministry the right to include the Judiciary in the creation of the Supplementary budget.
Minister Tweah told the already annoyed Justices said he did not know if there is any law in that direction.

He, however, was quick to change his taught when the Justices read the law to him.”Now, I know that there is a law that we should include the Judiciary into formatting any budget, but please allow the President to approve this budget that excludes the Judiciary. Afterward, we will find something for you people.” Minister Tweah also said.

The Finance Minister had reasoned earlier that the judiciary was just one of the autonomous agencies that collect its own money to facilitate their operational activities.

Chief Justice Francis Korkpor, hearing Tweah’s response, became more outrageous, demanding that Minister Tweah should go back to tell the President not to sign the budget unless it is revised to captured the Judiciary.

Justice Korkpor told Minister Tweah that there should be a specific allocation that would be evenly compared with the two other branches. Justice Korkpor said, “The Judiciary is not an autonomous agency to raise revenue for itself. Rather, they only collect money mainly from the fine imposed on lawyers and sometimes judges who violate the Judicial Cannon. It is not all the time we can fine lawyers to get money; if all of the lawyers chose not to violate the canon, then, where do you expect us to get funds to run the affairs of the judiciary?” the Chief Justices asked Tweah.

For Justice Minister Musa Dean, he was cited to explain as to whether he was knowledgeable of the act, and what advice he had given the two other branches of Government.
In response, Minister Dean said he was aware of the law; however, he has failed to explain it to the minister, the Legislature and the Executive.

The Justices later informed Tweah that onward, they must be consulted and be captured as provided for by the new Judiciary Act.

Lamenting their situation, the Justices informed Minister Tweah that they have to reverse to credit just to run the affairs of the Judiciary to include the renovation of court facilities throughout the country as well as upkeep staff.

The New Judiciary Law is under the captioned, “An Act to amend certain provision of chapter 3,7,12,14 15,18 and 21 of the new Judiciary Law to provide Financial Autonomy to the Judiciary.”

The act was approved on January 14, 2006, and published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on February 16, 2006.

Section 23.3 which deals with the Financial Administration of the Judiciary Budget provides that the Supreme Court shall submit to the Bureau of Budget annual estimates of the expenditures and appropriation, supplies and services including personnel, as well as funds appropriated for retirement pension and death benefits necessary for the maintenance and operation of the courts and such supplemental and deficiency estimate as may be required from time to time for the same purpose according to the law.’

Section 4 on the other hand states that “Non-compliance with the provisions contained within section 21.3 (2) above shall entitle the Supreme Court to hold the Minister of Finance or any other responsible officer for contempt of court.” 

It can be recalled that President George M. Weah recently submitted the US$10.5 million supplementary budget to the House of Representatives and House of Senate for timely consideration.

In a letter accompanying the draft supplementary budget, President Weah told Speaker Bhofal Chambers and members of the House of Representatives that the budget is meant to “Enable the government deliver on programs that are in critical needs for funds.”

According to the President, his government has “realized a windfall amid mounting expenditure demands for service deliverables beyond allocations in the approved budget of the Fiscal Year 2020/2021.”

The FY 2020/2021 budget was approved in the tone of US$570.1 million. If the supplementary budget is approved, the total budget for FY 2020/2021 will be US$580.6 million.

The President indicated that the sources of the supplementary budget include US$9 million from ArcelorMittal and a grant of US$1.5 million from the Kingdom of Morocco.

Furthered in his communication, the President outlined his expenditures as followed: RIA route pavement $900,000; Public school chair project $700,000; Transformer project $600,000; Hospital beds $500,000; Legislative goods and services $1.4m; domestic travels $400,000; vehicle repairs and maintenance $300,000; and constituency travels $900,000.

Others are vehicle fuel and lubricant $400,000; generator fuel $600,000; printing, binding and publication $250,000; Telecommunication, internet and ICT supplies, $250,000; RIA residential lounge $250,000; public schools renovation $250,000; GOL obligation to the African Union $1,129,695; Foreign Missions Operations $370,305 and subsidy compensation related $600,000.

It may go down in history as the single most massive bribery scandal to hit the 8th Judicial Circuit Court in Nimba County as two junior judges have been suspended with the most senior judge currently undergoing intense Investigation for unethical conduct and Impropriety’.

Stipendary Magistrate Daniel K. Konah, and Associate Magistrate Albert Dologoma, both of the 8th Judicial Circuit Court in Nimba, are suspended for three months and six months’s respectively, for unethical and unprofessional conducts, Chief Justice Francis Korkpor disclosed at the opening of the March Term 2021of the Supreme Court.

Currently, Resident Circuit Judge Roland Dahn has been forwarded to the Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) for an investigation over the accusation of being in a phone conversation with Senate Secretary Nanborlor Singbeh, when he, Judge Dahn, was handling a criminal case Singbeh brought before him against a British national, Hans Armstrong.

Singbeh is said to have allegedly conspired with Judge Dahn to gain influence over the case by issuing rulings for purposes of blackmail, political favours or kickbacks.

The decision of the Supreme Court comes as accusations of corruption continue to overwhelm the Judiciary, even though many judges and lawyers have either been suspended or forwarded to the Legislature for impeachment for wrongful acts. 

Nimba County, like other rural counties, is a place where the poor people find it difficult to access justice as courts are far from them with many not financially capacitated to pay bribes to get the justice they need.

Explaining the suspension, Justice Korkpor, on  Monday, March 8, recalled that during the October 2020 Term of Court, they heard and decided 32cases. “Among them were cases emanating from the Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) and the Grievance and Ethics Committee (GEC).

Korkpor further explained that both the JIC and GEC Investigated complaints of ethical and professional misconduct filed against the suspended magistrates and lawyers.

JIC is responsible to investigate complaints against judges, while the GEC heard complaints against lawyers.

“After conducting hearings into the complaints, Stipendiary Magistrate Daniel K. Konah and Associate Magistrate Albert Dologoma were found to be in the wrong,” Justice Korkpor said. 

According to Chief Justice Korkpor, when the cases traveled to the Supreme Court, they established that indeed, the conducts of the magistrates were found unwanting and outrageous, stressing, “We were therefore constrained to take decisions against them.”

Korkpor pointed out that the decision was not the first his court has taken against judges and lawyers.

“Over the years, reports of ethical transgressions of judges and lawyers have been scrupulously Investigated by the JIC and the GEC and appropriate actions taken by the Supreme Court,” said the Chief Justice.

By these actions, Korkpor told his audience that the court has regularly sanctioned judges and lawyers. 

He added that in more egregious cases, “We have recommended the removal of those whose acts are inimical to the core values of the Judiciary.”

Singbeh’s case highlights how far Judge Dahn, a former lawyer to the Senate Secretary, refused to recuse himself from the matter, but presided over the case prior to the discovery of the alleged phone conversation.

Dahn was caught on a call log communicating with his former client Singbeh for over hundred recorded minutes.

 Armstrong is the Attorney-In-Fact of  the majority shareholders of MHM Eko Liberia Limited owned by two Czech Republic investors, Martins and Pavel Miloschewsky. 
Singbeh, together with the general manager of MHM Eko Liberia Limited,  Karol Socher, a Czech Republic national.

The consignments were procured under the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Infectious Disease Detection and Surveillance (IDDS) project.

The program is supporting the Liberian Government to accelerate COVID-19 detection efforts by supplying PCR testing commodities. The PCR test is the “gold standard” test for diagnosing COVID-19 because it’s the most accurate and reliable test.

Items donated include 2,000 specimen collection swabs, Extraction reagents for the automated system for 2,400 tests, calibration and reaction plates to enable detection of SARS-CoV-2.

“This will enable the Government of Liberia to take action to reduce and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Ambassador McCarthy said.

He wants timely delivery of the items to the National Reference Laboratory for use.

The US envoy lauded the Government of Liberia’s effort in combatting the deadly pandemic and pledged the U.S Government’s continued support in improving the health sector of Liberia.

The surest way to counter potential epidemics or pandemics is to stop an outbreak where it starts, he said.

To do this, he added, Liberia needs effective disease detection and surveillance to quickly identify infectious diseases when they occur and monitor the development of an outbreak. Detection and surveillance are the keys to effectively prevent, respond to and contain infectious diseases.

Health Minister Dr. Wilhelmina Jallah praised the US government for its assistance to Liberia’s health system.

She said the kits containing reagents will be used by the robots, also donated by the US, in assisting the lab technicians to detect COVID-19 in persons.

“We do have robots that were provided by the United States Government and these are the little things that they need to do the work,’ she said.

“We are very happy today because these are the things that were needed. We were running short, but thanks to the United States government and all of our partners. The lab is back on track and moving and results are going to be available and on time. And all of us, we will be happy and not complain that we are missing our friends.”

Ellen Munemo, Team Lead of the USAID/IDDS project, said the automated extraction kits will be used by the National Reference Lab to extract the RNA materials of the virus to show whether the person is COVID-19 or not. It also detects Ebola Virus Disease.

“In the face of the 2023 Presidential and Legislative Elections, I feel we must review the Law, because we are going to have almost ninety (90) elections across the country, with more than approximately 500 contestants.”

In continuation, Binney said, “If we do not review the law so that it conforms with today’s challenges to avoid all these unnecessary challenges, we might take our democracy to its elasticity brink, and it will not be good for us.”

The warning by the National Patriotic Party candidate under the Coalition of Democratic Change arrangements followed similar statements by Senators Jonathan Boyd Charles Sogbie of River Gee, and Edwin Melvin Snowe of Bomi Counties who too, called for a review of the Elections Commission law of Liberia during their respective induction ceremonies.

Speaking yesterday in the Senate Annex Chambers minutes following his induction, Senator Binney reminded his colleagues that his election as Senator is a story.

“I am the first Senator in the history of Maryland County to win all four administrative districts of the county; it’s unprecedented with a huge margin of five thousand votes approximately.”

In spite of that huge achievement, Senator Binney regretted that his election was challenged, and had to wait until after three months, to allow the legal process to take its course which he asserted is a part of the democratic process, and expressed happiness that it has finally come to an end, “And I am here to join you to do the Liberian people’s work.”

Senator Binney intimated that 70% of the election results were challenged, describing it as unprecedented. He opined that when the framers of the 1986 Constitution crafted the elections law, they did not anticipate that seventy percent of the results of the election at a point in time would be challenged. He assured his supporters, especially those in Maryland, that his ascension to the Senatorial position knows no borders; “Because what matters is Liberia comes first, and all other things come second.”

Also inducted yesterday was Grand Kru County Senator Numene T. H. Bartekwa, who assured his kinsmen that he will uphold their trust reposed in him.”We have come not as mmm novices, we are just from next door (House of Representatives) with legislative experience, and we will be team players; we need to disarm ourselves with political representation and annex our expertise to solve our national problems, ” Senator Bartekwa, an avowed CDCian, but who contested as independent candidate urged his colleagues. The induction of the two Senators brings the number of seated Senators to twenty- four (24).

CAS is an institution independent of any sports organization which provides for servic­es in order to facilitate the settlement of sports-related disputes through arbitration or mediation by means of procedural rules adapted to the­ specific needs of the sports world.

In its final decision issued on March 11, 2021, CAS said, “the appeal filed by Mr Mamadou Antonio Souaré (Guinea) was upheld and the decisions issued by the CAF Governance Commission on 29 January 2021 and 12 February 2021 in which Mamadou Antonio Souaré was declared ineligible for election to the CAF Executive Committee were set aside.”

Mr. Souaré’s candidacy for the Executive Committee of CAF was rejected by CAF’s Governance Commission on January 19, after he “failed to provide satisfactory legal documentation proving his withdrawal from a sports betting company in Guinea.”

The election will take place this Friday in Rabat (Morocco) on the occasion of the CAF General Assembly which, in addition to the presidency of the governing body of football, will elect the members of the Executive Committee and the African representatives to the Council of FIFA.

With the latest decision from CAF, LFA President Raji and Guinean Football Federation President Souaré will now go head-to-head for the position.

Raji, in a chat with sports journalist Roland Mulbah, said despite the latest ruling, he is optimistic about winning the position.

For the post of CAF president, the South African, Patrice Motsepe, the only candidate running after the withdrawals of Mr. Augustin Senghor, Ahmed Yahya, Jacques Anouma and the two-year suspension of former CAF president Ahmad Ahmad.

The 26 professionals started their journey in Miami, America in February 2020 following their selection. They were selected to start the program after a review of 149 applications from 84 member associations across the six confederations.

The original plan was to host on-site classes on a rotational basis at the headquarters of the confederations but that did not go on as planned, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions. The course was held in a virtual format over a period of 13 months.

The FIFA Diploma in Football Law is a new chapter in the long partnership between FIFA and the CIES – International Center for Sports Studies.

According to FIFA, President Gianni Infantino and the Director of the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES), Denis Oswald, joined the graduation ceremony from the Home of FIFA in Zurich and the CIES headquarters in Neuchâtel, respectively, and passed on their congratulations to all diploma holders.

Over the 13 months period, the 26 football executives from all around the world were provided with in-depth insight into subjects such as “An introduction to football law”, “FIFA Transfer Regulations I and II”, “Other aspects of football law” and “CAS proceedings”. The diploma also comprised keynote presentations by 48 top-level speakers with the final aim of giving all attendees a first-hand understanding of the ever-evolving dynamics of football’s regulatory and decision-making framework.

FIFA’s stats revealed that on average, the professionals were 41 years old and have 15 years of experience of legal practice behind them. They work in various positions as directors of legal affairs or legal counsel at national football associations, leagues, clubs and players’ unions all around the world. Thirty‑six percent of them were women.

The second edition of the Diploma in Football Law is expected to be launched in the first quarter of 2022.