Demand justice for victims of sexual violence in Sierra Leone

Overall estimates are that 250,00 women and girls (33 per cent of the female population) were subjected to rape, sexual slavery and other crimes of violence during the conflict between 1991 and 2002.

All parties to the conflict committed these crimes - Sierra Leone’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) concluded: "it is clear that there were deliberate policies systematically to target women and girls and systematically to rape and sexually violate them".

Despite the widespread and systematic use of rape and other sexual violence, the government has failed to  provide reparations to the women effected by these crimes.

Email the Sierra Leonean ambassador calling on the government to provide reparations for victims of rape and sexual violence.