By Milcah Mathias

Blantyre, November 24, Mana: Malawi will on Monday, November 25 be a part of the remainder of the world in launching the nationwide observance of 16 Days of Activism towards gender-based violence (GBV) in Phalombe.

The marketing campaign is performed yearly and this yr’s theme is: ‘Unite to End Violence Against Women and Girls in Malawi: Towards Beijing +30.’ The marketing campaign will run from November 25 to December 10.

The First Lady, Madame Monica Chakwera is predicted to grace the launch because the visitor of honour at Mpasa Primary School floor in Phalombe District.

Executive Director for the Women’s Legal Resource Centre (WOLREC), an organisation that empowers girls and combat towards GBV, Maggie Kathewera Banda stated 16 Days of Activism goal to remind the worldwide world of the truth that there’s GBV and that it continues to happen.

“A lot of efforts have to be put in place to ensure that we are preventing GBV. We want to ensure that as many people as possible get to understand the implications and consequences of GBV, but also understand the fact that violence against women is a major human rights violation and retrogressive,” stated Banda.

Banda stated WOLREC is endeavor varied initiatives within the combat towards GBV together with campaigns resembling Moyo Olemekezeka, Community Mobilization Approach, Survivor Support Fund, Informal and Formal Response Service Providers and External Engagement Influencing.

She added that the organisation can also be working with the police in addressing problems with GBV.

“In Moyo Olemekezeka, we are working with target groups such as husband and wife in a family and influential relatives of the household who are involved and are trained in order to bring harmony into the home,” stated Banda.

“The Survivor Support Fund is supposed to be used by the survivors seeking support and therefore we pay for their lodging and transport so that they can seek the services that they are looking for,” she added.

Banda, nonetheless, referred to as on the general public, the police, conventional leaders to carry palms in stopping GBV by way of their rightful roles and the judiciary to verify the legal guidelines are figuring out, emphasising that it’s authorities’s accountability to guard girls towards GBV.

In shut collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare, the occasion can be graced by different devoted organisations who’re dedicated within the combat towards GBV within the nation.

The marketing campaign was began by activists on the inauguration of the Women’s Global Leadership Institute in 1991. It is used as an organized technique by people and organizations all over the world to name for the prevention and elimination of violence towards girls and women.