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• West Africa urged to reduce vulnerability of children to trafficking. ReliefWeb, 26 November 2007. At an international meeting on trafficking in children and armed conflict taking place from 26-28 November in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria Costa, urged governments of West and Central Africa to reduce the vulnerability of children to human trafficking.
  
• Government urged to act over sexual abuse of women. IRIN News, 03 August 2007. Human rights activists and at least one government official are hopeful the Ivorian leadership will take action on growing evidence that government and rebel forces sexually abused hundreds - if not thousands - of women during the conflict and continue to do so today.
• Peace Process Fails to Address Sexual Violence. Human Rights Watch, 02 August 2007. Pro-government and rebel forces in Côte d’Ivoire have subjected thousands of women and girls to rape and other brutal sexual assaults with impunity, Human Rights Watch said in a new report issued today.
• UN teams go to Côte d'Ivoire to probe sex abuse. The Mail and Guardian, 26 July 2007. The United Nations intends to send a team of investigators to Côte d'Ivoire next week to investigate sexual abuse, with a senior UN official pledging to enforce a "zero tolerance" policy worldwide.

• "My Heart is Cut" Sexual Violence by Rebels & Pro-Government Forces in Cote d'Ivoire. Human Rights Watch. 2007
• Côte D’Ivoire, Targeting women: the forgotten victims of the conflict, Amnesty International, 2007
• Trapped Between Two Wars: Violence Against Civilians in Western Côte d'Ivoire, Human Rights Watch, 2003
• Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives: Francophone Africa, Center for Reproductive Rights, 2000