Liberia’s Gender-Based Violence National Action Plan

Liberia’s Gender-Based Violence National Action Plan

Liberia is on the path to national recovery after some 14 years of a brutal civil war that left around half of all Liberian women as survivors of gender-based violence (GBV). However, rates of GBV, in particular domestic violence, remain high. For many Liberian women, the violence they experienced d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Format: Article
Language:Arabic
Published: University of Oxford 2007-01-01
Series:Forced Migration Review
Subjects:
forced migration
refugee
asylum
displacement
sexual violence
Liberia
Online Access:http://www.fmreview.org/en/FMRpdfs/FMR27/21.pdf
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Summary:Liberia is on the path to national recovery after some 14 years of a brutal civil war that left around half of all Liberian women as survivors of gender-based violence (GBV). However, rates of GBV, in particular domestic violence, remain high. For many Liberian women, the violence they experienced during the conflict period is still occurring.
ISSN:1460-9819

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