Measuring the incidence and reporting of violence against women and girls in liberia using the 'neighborhood method'

Conflict and Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Stark, Lindsay ^a   Warner, Ann ^a   Lehmann, Heidi ^a,b   Boothby, Neil ^a   Ager, Alastair ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Child protection; Gender based violence; Liberia; Rape

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884358851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17521505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1505-7-20     Document Type: Article

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