ZANU PF Goromonzi West MP and chairperson of the Regional Women’s Parliamentary Caucus Beatrice Nyamupinga has accused the police and the Judiciary of paying lip service to issues relating to gender-based violence.
Addressing stakeholders attending commemorations to mark 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence in her constituency on Tuesday, Nyamupinga said several victims of violence were now reluctant to report cases of abuse.
The function was organised by Women in Politics Support Unity.
“We do not encourage domestic violence and people in rural areas are not reporting these cases because they are afraid of being judged and interrogated by the police,” she said.
“In the end many people are affected, including innocent children.
“People are not reporting some of these cases because they are not guaranteed protection and security once they report the perpetrator to the police as these perpetrators are at times given light sentences.”
Nyamupinga urged the courts to pass prohibitive sentences on perpetrators of domestic violence.
Read more at The Zimdiaspora, published 7 December 2012.
ZANU PF Goromonzi West MP and chairperson of the Regional Women’s Parliamentary Caucus Beatrice Nyamupinga has accused the police and the Judiciary of paying lip service to issues relating to gender-based violence.
Addressing stakeholders attending commemorations to mark 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence in her constituency on Tuesday, Nyamupinga said several victims of violence were now reluctant to report cases of abuse.
The function was organised by Women in Politics Support Unity.
“We do not encourage domestic violence and people in rural areas are not reporting these cases because they are afraid of being judged and interrogated by the police,” she said.
“In the end many people are affected, including innocent children.
“People are not reporting some of these cases because they are not guaranteed protection and security once they report the perpetrator to the police as these perpetrators are at times given light sentences.”
Nyamupinga urged the courts to pass prohibitive sentences on perpetrators of domestic violence.
Read more at The Zimdiaspora, published 7 December 2012.