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• Campaign Intensifies Against Female Genital Mutilation. The News Online, 30 May 2008. A major campaign intended to curb the old-age practice of female genital mutilation has intensified in the country with the Women and Children Desk of the Inter-religious Council of Liberia (IRCL) taking the lead in the campaign.
• LIBERIA: Living with fistula. IRIN News, 15 May 2008. Of 600 rape victims recently interviewed by a Liberian non-governmental organisation, 90 percent of the women were found to be suffering from fistulas – a vaginal tear which results in loss of bladder control and social stigmatisation.
• Liberia’s campaign against rape goes to second largest city, with message, “No To Rape”. UNMIL, 6 May 2008. A nation-wide campaign against rape, jointly organised by the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and the Government of Liberia has now been taken to the second largest city, Buchanan, with an urgent call on all Liberians to say, “No To Rape”.
• Rape Has Two-fold Consequences. The Analyst, Monrovia, 2 April 2008. “Since 2006 the statistics for rape have not declined in Liberia. Most victims are between 10 to 14 years of age, and now even those between one to five years of age are falling prey to rape,” Ms. Mensa-Bonsu pointed out.
  
• LIBERIA: Special court for sexual violence underway. IRIN News, 21 March 2008. The Liberian government has created a special court to deal with not only rising rape cases, but also other forms of violence against women, Liberia’s Information Minister Laurence Bropleh told IRIN.

• UNMIL, International Engagement in Addressing Violence Against Women: Recommendations for Change, Action AID International, 2007
• Liberian Stories: A Population Caught in a Cycle of Violence and Displacement, Médecins Sans Frontières, Monrovia / Brussels, 2003
• Sexual and Gender-Based Violence - Liberia, RHRC, 2001

• Violence against women during the Liberian civil conflict, Swiss S, Jennings P, Aryee G, et al., JAMA. 279:625-9, 1998