USA: Amnesty International USA Hosts Former Female Child Soldiers fro Liberia for Discussions and...

Amnesty International USA will host public screenings of a new documentary film, Women of Liberia: Fighting for Peace, by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Jonathan Stack, on July 22-29 in New York and Washington, DC with discussion afterward by three visiting former female child soldiers who are featured in the film. The women will discuss the social stigma they have faced as former female fighters and their struggle to build better lives for themselves and their children after Liberia's devastating wars. Upwards of 30,000 women and girls were associated -- through force or desperation -- with the fighting forces in Liberia's war that ended in 2003. They were constant targets for rape and sexual violence by male fighters, and now they are trying to piece together new lives -- burdened by poverty, their missed school years... [read full story]