Liberia gets its first-ever female Minister ... he was responsible for low wages and poor living conditions in the military barracks. The women set up roadblocks near the capital, Monrovia ...

The Liberian police and army have for decades been used as a repressive ... the looting of villages, rape of women in police custody, and the execution of alleged rebels and collaborators.

In researching this report, Human Rights Watch interviewed more than three hundred victims and witnesses of the abuses, as well as Liberian army and Ministry ... raping women and girls, and ...