The former Liberian president faces 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity that he is alleged to have committed in Sierra Leone. Despite this, many ...
Women are at a higher risk of dying in childbirth in Sierra Leone than almost anywhere in the world. Women's right to health is being undermined by discrimination ...
More than half a million women die needlessly each year from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth – one every minute. Many others suffer disabling ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: AFR 51/003/2009. 27 April 2009. Sierra Leone: President Koroma must commute all. death row prisoners. ...
Three senior leaders of the Sierra Leone rebel group, the RevolutionaryUnited Front, were sentenced to long prison terms by the SpecialCourt for Sierra Leone on ...
The judgment issued today by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) finding three senior members of Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) guilty of
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was established to help ensure lasting and durable peace and security and respect for human rights in Sierra Leone ...
During the conflict between 1991 and 2002, it is estimated that a third of all women and girls in Sierra Leone were subjected to sexual violence. Many of these.
Six years after the end of the conflict in Sierra Leone, little has been done to ensure that the survivors of sexual violence receive justice, acknowledgement of ...