Botswana gropes in the dark as secrecy clouds GBV crisis
Sunday Standard Botswana gropes in the dark as secrecy clouds GBV crisis A fact-finding mission by the United Kingdom Home Office report seen by Sunday Standard has reveled that while Botswana is facing a gender-based violence crisis nobody at the government enclave appears to know the true scale of the problem. According to the report titled “Country Policy and Information Note; Botswana: Women fearing gender-based violence” paints a picture […] The post Botswana gropes in the dark as secrecy clouds GBV crisis first appeared on Sunday Standard and is written by Khonani Ontebetse
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Botswana gropes in the dark as secrecy clouds GBV crisis
A fact-finding mission by the United Kingdom Home Office report seen by Sunday Standard has reveled that while Botswana is facing a gender-based violence crisis nobody at the government enclave appears to know the true scale of the problem.
According to the report titled “Country Policy and Information Note; Botswana: Women fearing gender-based violence” paints a picture of a country paralysed not only by violence against women, but by an absence of official data on arrests, prosecutions and convictions.
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The post Botswana gropes in the dark as secrecy clouds GBV crisis first appeared on Sunday Standard and is written by Khonani Ontebetse
