Photo Credit: Prue Clarke
Gertrude Garway cradles the "newest" survivor of the atrocities in Liberia - a fatherless newborn who nearly died at birth.
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| Liberia’s Biggest “War Wound” |
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| A word of caution before our next story: it contains graphic language some listeners may find disturbing. Liberia has recently emerged from civil war and elected Africa’s first woman president. One of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s first official acts was to sign a law criminalizing all rapes. Up until then, only gang rape had been illegal. During the war, as many as 700-thousand women and girls are thought to have been raped. Sexual violence was used on both sides of the conflict as a weapon of control and humiliation. Our Africa correspondent Prue Clarke traveled to Kamplay, Liberia, and has this story on one group helping traumatized women. |
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When Will This End?
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