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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Main Author: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Format: Article
Language:Arabic
Published: University of Oxford 2007-01-01
Series:Forced Migration Review
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Online Access:http://www.fmreview.org/en/FMRpdfs/FMR27/21.pdf
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spelling doaj-bbedb967241a449db27939b8e73a75182020-11-24T21:01:26ZaraUniversity of OxfordForced Migration Review1460-98192007-01-012734Liberia’s Gender-Based Violence National Action PlanEllen Johnson SirleafLiberia 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.http://www.fmreview.org/en/FMRpdfs/FMR27/21.pdfforced migrationrefugeeasylumdisplacementsexual violenceLiberia
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Forced Migration Review
forced migration
refugee
asylum
displacement
sexual violence
Liberia
author_facet Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
author_sort Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
title Liberia’s Gender-Based Violence National Action Plan
title_short Liberia’s Gender-Based Violence National Action Plan
title_full Liberia’s Gender-Based Violence National Action Plan
title_fullStr Liberia’s Gender-Based Violence National Action Plan
title_full_unstemmed Liberia’s Gender-Based Violence National Action Plan
title_sort liberia’s gender-based violence national action plan
publisher University of Oxford
series Forced Migration Review
issn 1460-9819
publishDate 2007-01-01
description 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.
topic forced migration
refugee
asylum
displacement
sexual violence
Liberia
url http://www.fmreview.org/en/FMRpdfs/FMR27/21.pdf
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