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- Paramount chief supports FGM.
Concord Times, 21 April 2008.
Paramount Chief of Nongowa chiefdom, Kenema district has declared his support for the controversial female genital mutilation (FGM) locally referred to as ‘Bondo' society practiced by women in Sierra Leone .
- Sierra Leone women demonstrate for 'traditional' mutilation.
AFP, 4 March 2008. Some 800 women in the Sierra Leone town of Kailahun paraded Tuesday in favour of genital mutilation and told donors opposed to the practice to keep their money, demonstrators and witnesses said.
- SLeone women step up pressure to eradicate female circumcision. AFP, 6 February 2008.
Women's rights advocacy groups in Sierra Leone are piling up pressure on authorities for the speedy eradication of female circumcision prevalent in the country, one campaigner said on Wednesday.
- Women underrepresented in Sierra Leone polls.
SABC News, 11 August 2007. Cousins Hariatu and Salamatu Turay are taking a bold step running for parliament in Sierra Leone, where women candidates are dismissed as prostitutes, and wife-beating has only just been made a criminal offence
- Prosecutor wants forced marriage seen as war crime.
LegalBrief Today, 02 August 2007.
The chief prosecutor for war crimes in Sierra Leone is preparing to appeal against the acquittals of three military leaders accused of forcing women into marriage, in a move that he hopes will help bring convictions on similar charges at the International Criminal Court.
- Getting Reparations Right for Survivors of Sexual Violence, Sierra Leone, Amnesty International, 2007
- From Combat to Community: Women and Girls of Sierra Leone, Mazurana D. and Carlson K. with contributions by Anderlini S. N., Women Waging Peace, 2004
- War related sexual violence in Sierra Leone: a population based assessment,
Physicians for Human Rights & UNAMSIL, 2002
- The Situation of Women and Girls in the Pre-Conflict, Conflict and Post-Conflict Sierra Leone,
Jamesina King, Campaign for Good Governance. Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 2002
- Operation Fine Girl. Rape Used as a Weapon of War in Sierra Leone, WITNESS, 2001
- Report on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) or Female Genital Cutting (FGC) Released by the Office of the Senior Coordinator for International Women's Issues, 2001
- Sexual Violence Within the Sierra Leone Conflict,
Human Rights Watch, 2001
- Sierra Leone: rape and other forms of sexual violence against girls and women, Amnesty International, 2000.
- Sierra Leone: Rape and other Forms of Sexual Violence Against Girls and Women,
Amnesty International-AFR 51/035/2000, 2000
- Fighting genital mutilation in Sierra Leone, Bull World Health Organisation, 83 (11) 806-807, 2005
- We'll kill you if you cry: Sexual violence in the Sierra Leone conflict, 15 (1), Human Rights Watch, 2003.
- Amowitz Lynn L et al. "Prevalence of war-related sexual violence and other human rights abuses among internally displaced persons in Sierra Leone". JAMA January 23/30, 287 (4), 2002. Related report: "Prevalence of war-related sexual violence and other human rights abuses among IDPs." In War-related sexual violence in Sierra Leone. Physicians for Human Rights, 2002.
- Bogart & Dufka, Sexual violence in Sierra Leone,
Lancet, 357 (9252), 2001 (Note: quick registration required for access)
- de Jong,Mulhern et al, The trauma of war in Sierra Leone, Lancet, 355 (9220), 2000 (Note: quick registration required for access)
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