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Coming Forward in Liberia

by Azizi Jones in Features

As soon as Africa's first female president-Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia-took office, she wasted no time spearheading another monumental gain for women: the day after she was inaugurated in January 2006, a tough, new rape law went into effect in this West African nation.

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