FIDA Bayelsa on Sunday joins the rest of the world to celebrate the International day for the elimination of violence against women. The 2018 theme is Orange The World: #HearMeToo. On Sunday, like previous editions marks the launch of 16 days of activism that will conclude on 10 December, International Human Rights Day.
As part of our campaign to end violence against women, we carried out a sensitization programme at the St. Peters Anglican Church, Yenagoa on Sunday.
The world over, violence against women and girls has been largely unreported due to the culture of silence, shame and the stigma surrounding it despite its alarming persistence.
*Violence Against Women: FIDA Takes Campaign to Church ⛪[WATCH VIDEO]*
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It is one of the most devastating violation of human rights in the world today. The adverse effects of violence against women cannot be over emphasised as it lingers on throughout the lifetime of the victims. It of course not only manifests in battering, marital rape or killings but other damning ways which includes: female genital mutilation, child marriages, sexual violence and harrassment, human trafficking amongst others.
The Declaration on The Elimination of Violence Against Women issued by the UN in 1993 defined violence against women as “any act of gender based violence that results in, or is likely to result in physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation on liberty whether occuring in public or in private life.”
As released by the UN, an alarming 1 in 3 women and girls experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, 1 in 2 women killed were killed by their partners or family in 2012 while 1 out of 20 men were killed under similar circumstances, worldwide almost 750 million women and girls alive today were married before their 18th birthday while 200 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), violence against women and girls is as serious a cause of death and incapacity among females of reproductive age as cancer, and a greater cause of ill health than traffic accidents and malaria combined.
FIDA Bayelsa understands the need to work towards the reduction and prevention of violence against women hence our renewed commitment to protect the rights of women and girls for this purpose through advocacy.
In the words of António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, “Not until half of our population represented by women and girls can live free from fear, violence and everyday insecurity, can we truly say we live in a fair and equal world.”
We hope for a society where women will speak up and the fight to end gender based violence can be won eventually.
*Violence Against Women: FIDA Takes Campaign to Church ⛪[WATCH VIDEO]*
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