{"id":2341,"date":"2019-08-05T16:18:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2019-08-05T16:18:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:18:40","slug":"justice-and-peace-commended-for-male-champion-approach-to-end-vawg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/justice-and-peace-commended-for-male-champion-approach-to-end-vawg\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice and Peace Commended for Male Champion Approach to End VAWG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Vincent Bwinga (Justice and\nPeace)<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Group Village Headman Mlongoti under Traditional Authority Mwilang\u2019ombe in Karonga District has appraised the approach taken by the Justice and Peace Desk, under HeForShe Project, as the best since it engages perpetrators of violence against women and children in championing elimination of the same. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the women who attended the meeting <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Speaking\nduring community awareness meeting at Vuwa in SGVH Kaswela in July 2019,\nMlongoti said men, especially fishermen, are the top agents of early marriages\nin the area taking advantage of the financial status of families in the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany\ngirls are enticed by money and this is the main reason we have high number of\ngirls dropping out of school to get marries. And they easily fall prey to\nfishermen who go for them the moment they get money.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\nis very good that the project encourages men and boys to champion the promotion\nof women\u2019s and girls\u2019 rights. At the moment, boys are able to defend their\nsisters, unlike in the past when they never wanted equal treatment between them\nand their sisters. Male championing is helping men realize their responsibility\nin ending violence against women and children,\u201d said Mlongoti. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commenting\nduring the awareness meeting, SGVH Kaswela advised parents to give equal\nopportunities to boys and girls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SGVH\nKaswela also said pledged the commitment of traditional leaders to rescue girls\nfrom marriages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experience\nhas shown that parents and guardians usually do not support girls rescued from\nmarriages forcing them to go back or contract another marriage union. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HeForShe\nproject has created a strong working relationship among HeForShe school clubs,\ncommunity groups, mother groups, chiefs, teachers and the male champion groups\nwhich has increased community responsiveness and monitoring of cases of\nviolence and early marriages of girls in schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nproject has also helped unveil cases of abuse at family and community levels and\nit has also helped to identify root causes of some cases of abuse more\nespecially those leading to early marriages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nproject is being implemented in Karonga District with financial support from UN\nWomen through ECM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Vincent Bwinga (Justice and Peace) Group Village Headman Mlongoti under Traditional Authority Mwilang\u2019ombe in Karonga District has appraised the approach taken by the Justice and Peace Desk, under HeForShe Project, as the best since it engages perpetrators of violence against women and children in championing elimination of the same. Speaking during community awareness meeting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice-and-peace-desk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}