Girls of #SierraLeone Part 3: #Children break stones at a quarry near the town of Makeni. Forty-eight per cent of the country’s children are involved in labour. Sierra Leone’s civil war ended over ten years ago, but progress, especially for girls and women, remains slow. High rates of maternal and child mortality, early marriage, limited access to education and sexual abuse all threaten girls’ health and wellbeing.

Sierra Leone, 2011: © UNICEF/NYHQ2011-0768/Asselin

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