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LIBERIA: Safe House For Survivors

LIBERIA: Safe House For Survivors As the country celebrates five years of peace and 161 years of independence, violence and brutality persist. The United Nations Mission in Liberia ( UNMIL ) has built a new safe house for survivors of sexual violence in the capital, Monrovia, and helped refurbish a former jail to ease prison overcrowding, the UN’s news service has announced. The safe house was built as part of a $24,000 project that was also supported by the UN children’s fund Unicef . The head of UNMIL and the secretary‐general’s special representative in Liberia, Ellen Margrethe Loj, said that sexual and other forms of gender‐based violence must be stopped if the country is to fully advance after years of civil war and misrule. “Any woman or girl who falls victim to this sort of violence, especially rape, is really having her possibilities for contributing to society greatly diminished,” Loj said. At the safe house, the survivors and victims receive psycho‐social support, basic literacy and numeric skills development, vocational training and other life skills, such as information about reproductive health and HIV/AIDS awareness. In Zwedru, the capital of Grand Gedeh county in eastern Liberia, UNMIL has helped re‐open the rehabilitated National Palace of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Wiley
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© Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2008
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0001-9844
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1467-825X
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10.1111/j.1467-825X.2008.01844.x
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As the country celebrates five years of peace and 161 years of independence, violence and brutality persist. The United Nations Mission in Liberia ( UNMIL ) has built a new safe house for survivors of sexual violence in the capital, Monrovia, and helped refurbish a former jail to ease prison overcrowding, the UN’s news service has announced. The safe house was built as part of a $24,000 project that was also supported by the UN children’s fund Unicef . The head of UNMIL and the secretary‐general’s special representative in Liberia, Ellen Margrethe Loj, said that sexual and other forms of gender‐based violence must be stopped if the country is to fully advance after years of civil war and misrule. “Any woman or girl who falls victim to this sort of violence, especially rape, is really having her possibilities for contributing to society greatly diminished,” Loj said. At the safe house, the survivors and victims receive psycho‐social support, basic literacy and numeric skills development, vocational training and other life skills, such as information about reproductive health and HIV/AIDS awareness. In Zwedru, the capital of Grand Gedeh county in eastern Liberia, UNMIL has helped re‐open the rehabilitated National Palace of

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series – Wiley

Published: Aug 1, 2008

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