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Women's situation particularly difficult

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    The situation of women in Sierra Leone is particularly "difficult", UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Carolyn McAskie told journalists on Tuesday in New York.

    She said human rights workers on the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) team had reported that the incidence of sexual attacks was worse than in Bosnia, where rape was considered a war crime. "In fact, situations where girls were held for several months and years at a time constituted sexual torture," she added.

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