Stiffer Penalties For Rapists

Activists and organisations have been at the forefront of sensitising communities around the world on issues of Gender Based Violence (GBV). GBV affects the girl child/women more than it affects the boy child/men.

Of course it cannot be ignored that the boy child and men do experience it, although statistics show that women and the girl-children are the ones who bear the brunt the most. Gender Links has perhaps been the most active campaigner to end GBV alongside other non-governmental organisations.

It is heart-breaking that with so many campaigns against GBV, there are still men out there who still defile young girls and rape women. Cases of defilement and rape seem to be on the rise in the country.

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Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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