Women Waging Peace

From the BBC...

An all-female peacekeeping force has landed in Liberia to help stabilize the country and to provide support to the women of the African nation. Their goal is to increase the percentage of women in the Liberian police force:

"I understand they are not training the women for combat but with these women coming from India they are going to be a fantastic role model. So I am going to take all of them to the ministry of defence to show them you can train women in combat."

They also hope to stamp out the rampant sexual exploitation:

"Liberia has an alarming incidence of rape which goes unpunished. The deployment of more female police officers could encourage the women and young girls to report the crime.
In the past, the UN mission in Liberia has been tainted by accusations of sexual exploitation: food given to teenage refugees by UN peacekeepers in return for sex. But Joanna Foster, the gender adviser to the UN Mission says that there is less sexual exploitation when more women are employed. "