Sex less in Abidjan - Ivory Coast: A TV host asked a sex offender to demonstrate how he assaulted victims. Women fought back.

Vincent Hugeux, « Simone Gbagbo, femme fatale », L'Express, 20 fév 2003.

It also states that the school life expectancy for males is ten years, whereas for girls it is eight years.

Today's northern Ivory Coast was at the periphery of the and the great medieval states of the , while with Portuguese from the 1460s and later French colonial expansion, women of the southern regions experienced wars of colonialism and resistance firsthand.

A pro government group, the CFPCI is led by former Sports Minister Geneviève Bro-Grebé, and allied to the "" student organisation, itself accused of fomenting violence against those perceived as disloyal to the government, including rape.