Liberian women stalked by rape
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MONROVIA — As a young girl Garmar Murphy was forced into a child soldier’s life, serving as a sexual plaything for Liberian rebels between battles — a tragic norm in the country’s savage conflict.
She was 13 years old, and rape was not criminalized.
A decade later, her country boasts Africa’s first female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who in October won a Nobel Peace Prize with Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee for their struggle to boost women’s rights and safety.
But if women have taken some steps forward in the eight years since a peace accord ended Liberia’s civil war, they haven’t left behind the threat of rape.
Rape became endemic as a weapon of fear during the 14-year-long conflict and is still rampant, going unpunished more often than not..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111129com3.html
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nasa lipunan kasi iyan eh. dapat ang i.stigmatize eh ang rapist, hindi an na.rape. o kaya, dapat libre ang RAPEX, isang anti.rape condom na nandudurog yata ng penis....
"“A few weeks ago we had a four-month-old baby that was violently raped. Now that baby will not be able to identify a perpetrator. If we had forensics we would have DNA evidence on this person,” says Schaack.
"A lack of forensic analysis is one of many daunting challenges faced by Criminal Court E, the special rape court, whose chief prosecutor Felicia Coleman has to overcome an exhausting list of barriers to convict rape offenders."
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