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schema:articleBody	Thousands of Liberians dressed in black protested on Tuesday, accusing the government of President George Weah of failing to tackle rising incidents of rape. "We have registered more than 600 cases of rape between June and August," Margaret Taylor, head of the Women Empowerment Network, told AFP at the protests in the capital Monrovia. Under banners reading "No means no", the protesters, many accompanied by their children, marched on parliament. They presented a petition entitled "Enough is enough", calling for greater judicial funding to punish offenders, and more health funding to help victims. Decades of poverty and conflict have allowed sexual violence to go largely unchecked in the west African nation. A UN report in 2016 recorded 803 rape cases the previous year in the country of 4.5 million, and found that only two percent of sexual violence cases led to a conviction. The UN said the number reflected "a tradition of impunity" rooted in the country's 14-year civil war that ended in 2003, when rape was often used as a weapon of war. Between 61 and 77 percent of females were raped during this period, the UN has said, with almost no investigations. Liberia has lately adopted laws to protect women. "But the frequency of these acts today shows again that this is not sufficient," said Taylor. "That's why we are asking the government to make fundamental changes and to arrest people as soon as possible when they are accused of rape." In its 2016 report, the UN blamed weak institutions, corruption, government inertia and financial constraints for the problem, but also entrenched patriarchal attitudes and social pressures. Amnesty International wrote in a 2017-18 report that domestic violence, genital mutilation and underage marriages were also endemic in Liberia. zd-lal/er/erc
schema:headline	Liberians protest rising rape cases
schema:mentions	Civil war Mutilation George Weah Endemism Amnesty International Liberia Republican Left of Catalonia Agence France-Presse Domestic violence Poverty Rape President of the Philippines United Nations Margaret Taylor Inertia Monrovia Sexual violence
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schema:datePublished	2020-08-25 (xsd:date)
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