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Gender-based violence declines
11 Jun 2016 at 21:52hrs | Views
File photo: Gender-based violence, male victim of GBV
Cases of gender-based violence (GBV) have declined from 18.4 percent in 2010 to 14.5 percent in 2015, owing to the success of programmes meant to fight the scourge within our communities.
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development Beatrice Nyamupinga said there is not much to celebrate as a lot still needs to be done to reduce gender-based violence, indicating that some cases of violence remain unreported in remote areas as villagers have no access to police stations.
Nyamupinga, however, called on government to scale up prevention programmes and emphasized the need to invest in programmes that tackle the risk factors at individual, community and societal levels using effective interventions such as promoting women and girls economic independence coupled with gender empowering training programmes.
In Zimbabwe, domestic violence is widely acknowledged as a great concern, not just from a human rights perspective but also from an economic and health perspective.
In 2006, the country enacted the Domestic Violence Act to make provision for protection and relief of victims of violence in families.
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development Beatrice Nyamupinga said there is not much to celebrate as a lot still needs to be done to reduce gender-based violence, indicating that some cases of violence remain unreported in remote areas as villagers have no access to police stations.
In Zimbabwe, domestic violence is widely acknowledged as a great concern, not just from a human rights perspective but also from an economic and health perspective.
In 2006, the country enacted the Domestic Violence Act to make provision for protection and relief of victims of violence in families.
Source - Byo24News
