it describes followup activities in the immediate aftermath of the adoption of scr and highlights strategies and tactics used and the increasing concerted development of national action plans focusing on the liberia national action plan as an example as peace support operations generally fail to include women their perspectives are often marginalized especially at the decisionmaking level it is now a commonly recognized fact that during armed conflicts women become targets of systematic gendered and sexual aggression by different warring factions with perpetrators ranging from regular armed forces to peacekeepers sexual torture rape sexual slavery forced pregnancy