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Liberia: Women Group Presents To TRC
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The Analyst (Monrovia)
15 July 2008
Posted to the web 16 July 2008
A Liberian women organization, Voices in Empowering Women and Women's Rights International (VIEW) will Monday begin special presentation to the public and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Liberia on a survey finding of women experiences during the Liberian civil conflict.
The presentation, which will include the participation of over 100 women from various parts of the country, will be made over three consecutive days at the Centennial Memorial Pavilion in Monrovia.
The presentation will provide interpretation and discussion about the significance and meaning of the survey findings with respect to women's experiences during the conflict.
View will make suggestions and recommendations for future activities and programs for women that will draw on the survey findings and on their experiences working with women in Liberia throughout the war.
In order to address the multiple levels of literacy among the Liberian people, VIEW said it will use multiple presentation styles such as dramatic readings and plays and the findings will be presented using multiple visual data presentation formats.
The survey findings are directly relevant to the TRC special mandate to "address the experiences of women, children and vulnerable groups, paying specific attention to gender-based violence.
According to VIEW, the survey was devised and conducted by Liberian women who themselves were living through the conflict; they knew exactly what questions to ask to draw the complexities of how women and their families were affected directly and indirectly by the war violence.
The findings, VIEW said reflect the intimate local knowledge of women who lived through their experiences themselves. The organization said the data were collected while the conflict was still going on and the findings can be generalized to a larger population of Liberian women.
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Voices in Empowering Women (VIEW), founded in 2008, is a collaborative of an original team of six Liberian women who came together in 1994 to document and address human rights violations against women during the Liberian conflict.
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