Protecting our populations from COVID-19 should not mean abandoning women to domestic violence leaving our children to sexual abusers

Protecting our populations from COVID-19 should not mean abandoning women to domestic violence leaving our children to sexual abusers
Protecting our populations from COVID-19 should not mean abandoning women to domestic violence leaving our children to sexual abusers

 
Even though before the COVID-19 pandemic, Botswana figures concerning domestic
violence were alarming; many countries, Botswana included are still reporting a surge in
domestic and sexual violence cases against women and children.
Even though before the COVID-19 pandemic, Botswana figures concerning domesticviolence were alarming; many countries, Botswana included are still reporting a surge indomestic and sexual violence cases against women and children.  

 

Necessary emergency

Editor's Comment
The State apparatus must be sanitised

When the State cannot rely on its own machinery to pursue suspected wrongdoing, repairing that machinery must become a national priority.The establishment of a Special Investigations and Asset Recovery Task Force may help government respond to the immediate challenge. However, Botswana cannot afford to leave the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) struggling whilst building...

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