AN APPRAISAL OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN AFRICA POLITICS, A STUDY OF LIBERIA
Keywords:
Violence against women (VAW), Gender-based violence (GBV), Armed conflict, Liberia civil war, Human rights violations, Sexual violence, Women’s empowermentAbstract
The Liberia civil war was one of the wars in Africa that shocked the conscience of mankind. The effect of the war on women was more devastating than others. The objectives of this work are to consider the violation of the rights of women in the Liberia civil war, examine the role played by the rebel movement in gender related abuses and find why women are more valuable to rights, violation in armed conflict particularly in Liberia. The term gender denotes the qualities associated with men and women that are socially and currently determined. It includes the way in which society differentiates appropriate behavior and access to power for men and women. The methodology adopted behavior and adopted in this work is based on secondary materials only. Our findings are that women were raped, brutalized and brutally murdered and in some cases abducted and uses as sex slaves.
