In partnership with Kicukiro District, from the 25th November to 10th December 2021, 16 days of activism campaign against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) was orgnized. Women and young girls remaining the primary people affected.
Through its different programmes that addresse issues affecting young girls and women in the Rwandan community, Giraneza joined the world in a campaign of the 16 Days of activism against Gender-Based-Violence to speak out and advocate for Gender-Based-Violence survivors. Therefore, we can’t sit back and keep quit, we fight for a future of safe spaces and zero violence!
The campaign was launched in Kicukiro District and started with a walk from Sonatubes to the Kicukiro Women Training Center in Niboye Sector. The walk brought together local government officials, development partners, civil society organisations, members of the private sector, army and police top brass, secondary and university students, and groups of women rights activists. We marched carrying different posts with anti-GBV messages to express our commitment to denounce Gender Based Violence against Women and Girls in the Rwandan community. Speak out, the Giraneza representative with other officials, further called on the general public to avoid the culture of remaining silent on GBV cases rather advised to timely report them to concerned institutions as a way of full eradicating this vice. Main activities
During the whole period of 16 Days of the Campaign, different main activities were carried out. These include trying GBV and child abuse cases pending before courts and identification of teen mothers who have not yet reported their cases to the Judicial Police and facilitating them to lodge complaints.
Some of the teenagers who spoke to the media revealed that there are friends they know who have been abused, but due to not knowing their rights, they chose to remain silent; they hate being recognized and ridiculed for other reasons including not being comfortable with their peers and sometimes their families not taking care of them properly.
