The Revelation Of The Internal Conflict Of The Legal Fraternity And Violence Against Women

It is a pandemic we are often silent about, despite how rampant it is and despite how close to home it has been for many of us in our country, whether as a form of violence itself, or in the context of other related violences. We know, or at least we should know, that in the grander scheme of things, murder, as it should rightly be called, sits at the highest helm of the gender based violence pyramid, being the worst and most final form of violence that can ever be meted against any other person.

Gender based violence, and more contextually, intimate partner murder affects all communities in our society. Despite being context specific, it affects all women in our society. Violence against women has previously been contextualised as a relational vulnerability, reflecting women’s subordination in status, in hierarchical gender relations and the dependencies associated with it. Violence against women is a human rights violation, recognised as such internationally.