SIERRA LEONE: REFUGEE WOMEN AND THE CHALLENGE OF REINTEGRATION

During a recent site visit to West Africa, the U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR) spoke with more than 30 Sierra Leonean women and girls—refugees, internally displaced, and returnees—about their experiences and the reintegration obstacles they face in Sierra Leone. Many of the women and girls had lost spouses, parents, children and other family members in the fighting or had suffered or witnessed atrocities.