The International Rescue Committee is a partner of ITVS’s Women and Girls Lead campaign.

Years after the end of war in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Ivory Coast ­— women continue to suffer violence at alarming levels and with shocking frequency. The primary threat to their safety is not strangers or men with guns; it is their husbands.

This is among the findings of the International Rescue Committee Commission on Domestic Violence in a new report that calls attention to the urgent problem of domestic violence in West Africa and other post-conflict zones.
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