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Intergenerational consequences of silence around rape and sexual assault. it is -- it is a truth right here. >> yeah, and i think -- i mean i think that's what really resonates with people when they see olivia's story. there's a commonality in it. when rape is used as a tool of war, it becomes embedded in society as a norm. and i think that's kind of what we're seeing ten years on in liberia and that's the issue that needs to be addressed there. but it just comes down to gender politics around the world. we have the same thing here to varying degrees in the u.s. the difference is we have a fun...

Your mother, i'll kill your father. and it remains in the child's mind. they would never even say the correct name. >> joining me now are jessica vale and nika offenbach. i was saying in the commercial break how difficult i found this film to watch but realizing that olivia's lived experience was so much worse, that i at least owed it to her to bear witness. what more can we do beyond bearing witness in this moment? >> well, i think like you said, one of the first things people need to do is actually be willing to watch it and learn about her story and talk about her story. you know, i think p...

Including regions with the highest recorded rates of rape like north america and southern africa. in liberia in december 2012 a young teen named olivia zena died from an infection and extensive injuries she sustained when she was raped at the age of 7. olivia's story was not an isolated one. when she was checked into jfk hospital in liberia, she was one of several girls to be treated for sexual assault. in fact according to a 2011 report by doctors without borders, 92% of girls and women being treated for rape in liberia facilities were under the age of 18. many women and girls don't even repo...

Children. but the solution to the issue in liberia has to be hiliberians. so if people want to get involved and do things, there's a number of organizations you can find through our website who are working on the ground. one is heal.org, which is actually trying to build a dna lab to process evidence and help educate people to collect evidence. the other is more than me, which is currently building a boarding school for young girls. >> so i want to pause on what you said about collecting evidence because i think this is important for folks who haven't seen the film, that one of the things that...

That happened to olivia? [ speaking foreign language ] >> i'm a woman and it's a girl who has been assaulted and so our voices are insufficient in this case. >> right. and one thing also that we realized through making the film is that bendu was also raped in the conflict. i remember when we first heard that, i couldn't even believe that. the amount of children this has happened to. to have bendu deny it or not come forward because of the pressure from her family and then to admit to us that she had also been through the same thing. >> i both couldn't believe it and absolutely could believe it...