Wilson Center Experts
Pamela Shifman
Environmental Change and Security Program
Expertise:
Gender
; Africa
Affiliation:
Director, Initiatives on Women and Girls, NoVo Foundation
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July 24, 2012 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Liberia is a case study in post-conflict violence against women, said panelists at the Wilson Center on July 24. “Confined merely to performing household chores and childrearing duties, from early childhood, women and girls have been socialized into subservience and powerlessness and acceptance of domestic abuse as a norm,” Annette Kiawu, deputy minister for research and technical services at the Liberian Ministry of Gender and Development, told the audience.
