My human rights and child protection activism work is fully aligned to my advisory work at Stepping Stones International. SSI’s mission is to unlock the potential in every child and their family, using the human and child centred approach programming. My role in the organisation is to engage with community, government and child protection stakeholders including media to ensure that children’s (not limited to only our beneficiaries) rights are protected and upheld especially through management of human rights violation cases, holding stakeholders accountable on their work and commitments through human and children’s rights capacity building and systems strengthening.
GBV is wrong, emotionally, physically, and psychologically painful. It degrades the dignity of those violated and without help it eats away the soul of victims. Unfortunately, women and girls are the most vulnerable in our patriarchal society. Government as the duty bearer, in her efforts of addressing GBV should address all the enablers that perpetuate GBV culture. You cannot hate GBV and agree to corporal punishment. You cannot fail to invest in families and children and hope they will grow up well and end the scourge of GBV. GBV should be seen as a learnt behaviour and efforts to end it require responding to the vicious cycle. Financially invest in systems and people towards addressing the enablers of GBV. End all forms of violence, invest in psychosocial support, reconstruct society’s mindset towards violence and inequality.
If ending GBV is important to us, invest in the time towards ending it. 16 days of activism should only highlight the efforts, strides and gaps. There is a need for a deep dive understanding of GBV and accordingly respond towards ending it. Collaboration towards a common goal, prioritize ending GBV, monitoring the efforts and learning. The need to set up support structures for victims of GBV and psychosocial support services for both victims and perpetrators of GBV.
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