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Emergency Care Essential to Stop Maternal Deaths

By Séverine Caluwaerts & Por Alison Bowen ● Health & Science ● March 1, 2015

We know how to prevent nearly all deaths in childbirth, but women still die daily, says Séverine Caluwaerts in this excerpt from the e-book “Because Tomorrow Needs Her: The Fight for Women’s Health.”

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Sierra Leone’s Breast Cancer Taboo Stalls Diagnoses

By Anna Limontas-Salisbury ● Health & Science ● February 4, 2014

Even if women do get diagnosed in time, getting treatment is costly and can mean heading to Ghana. On World Cancer Day, Anna Limontas-Salisbury delves into the major challenges in lowering breast cancer rates in this West African country.

Bangura Rethinks U.N.’s Sex-Violence Patrol

By Amy Lieberman ● Uncategorized ● December 10, 2012

The new U.N. point person on sexual violence in armed conflict doesn’t plan to do it on her own. Zainab Bangura, a former health minister from Sierra Leone, is tapping governments to work alongside her nine-person staff.

World Court Struggles to Finish Mass Rape Cases

By Amy Lieberman ● Crime & Law ● November 21, 2012

Leaders of the international tribunal for Sierra Leone–known for its focus on gender-based crimes–are struggling to keep it open through the appeals trial of Liberia’s Charles Taylor.

FGM Practitioners Sway Elections in Sierra Leone

By Emily Bowers ● Crime & Law ● September 7, 2007

Fighting female genital mutilation is tough in Sierra Leone, where 90 percent of women have been cut and the current election season has shown the political clout of practitioners. Second in a series on African women and the rule of law.

Report: Routine Rapes, Abuse in Sierra Leone War

By Jordan Lite ● Uncategorized ● February 19, 2002

The war in West Africa’s Sierra Leone displaced thousands of its civilians, left many with hacked-off limbs and children forced to become rebel soldiers. Now, a new report indicates an extraordinary rate of sexual violence against women and girls.