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February 4, 2016

Sierra Leone: Sign Bill Allowing Safe Abortions

Sierra Leone’s president, Ernest Bai Koroma, should sign into law a bill that would increase women’s access to safe and legal abortion, seven rights groups said today.

Women's Rights

February 4, 2016 News Release

Sierra Leone: Sign Bill Allowing Safe Abortions
Children's Rights

Pregnant teenagers and their right to education are in the spotlight again, this time as Sierra Leone tries to ban “visibly pregnant” girls from taking their exams in primary and secondary school.

March 31, 2015 Dispatches

Dispatches: Mishandling Teen Pregnancies in Sierra Leone

Liesl Gerntholtz
Executive Director, Women's Rights Division; Interim Director, Africa Division
Health

September 15, 2014 News Release

West Africa: Respect Rights in Ebola Response

News

February 4, 2016 Letter

Letter to President Koroma of Sierra Leone
September 12, 2014 News Release

What Turns a Few Cases of Disease into Thousands?

Joseph Amon
Director, Health and Human Rights

Published In: CNN
March 14, 2014 Commentary

The Courage to Speak in Sierra Leone

Rona Peligal

Published In: Think Africa Press
February 19, 2014 News Release

Sierra Leone: Mining Boom Brings Rights Abuses
November 10, 2013 News Release

Somalia: Deeply Flawed Rape Inquiry
October 30, 2013 News Release

Sierra Leone: New Law Promotes Transparency
September 26, 2013 Dispatches

Dispatches: Justice for Victims of Charles Taylor’s Crimes, At Last

Corinne Dufka
Associate Director, West Africa
August 5, 2013 Dispatches

Dispatches: In Sierra Leone, Out of the Shadows and Back Again

Elise Keppler
Associate Director, International Justice Program
August 5, 2013 Q & A

Sierra Leone: Questions and Answers on Ibrahim Bah
June 19, 2013 Commentary

Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 19 June
June 19, 2013 News Release

Sierra Leone: Investigate Alleged Rebel Arms Supplier
December 10, 2012 News Release

Fernando Moleres Wins Tim Hetherington Grant

February 19, 2014

Whose Development?

Human Rights Abuses in Sierra Leone’s Mining Boom
July 25, 2012

"Even a 'Big Man' Must Face Justice"

Lessons from the Trial of Charles Taylor
June 21, 2006

Trying Charles Taylor in The Hague

Making Justice Accessible to Those Most Affected

World Report 2011

World Report 2011: Sierra Leone

Events of 2010

Our People

Corinne Dufka

Associate Director, West Africa @CorinneDufka

Daily Brief

October 18, 2016

Fleeing ISIS; Blogging in Vietnam; Snatched by China: HRW Daily Brief

Australia's "open-air prisons" for refugees; deadly retaliation in Turkmenistan; Democratic Republic of Congo moving closer to the precipice; climate change threatening food production; #FreeThem campaign for Uzbek journalist Muhammad Bekjanov; air-strikes on Aleppo suspended.

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May 26, 2010

Global Justice: The Expanding Reach of Accountability

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World Report 2011

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