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Ending Impunity for Sexual and Gender Based Violence

Posted by: Webmaster on August 04, 2008 3:10:37 PM

 

Pan African Conference on Sexual and Gender based Violence, 21 - 23 JULY, 2008

 

 

''The inadequacy of our societies' responses has cast sexual and gender-based violence as an abuse we are willing to live with. Women and girls, regardless of their age, social and economic status, live in perennial fear of violation'', excerpt from the SGBV Conference Communiqué.

Click here to download the Conference Communiqué and here to read the news story.

 

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Partnering with the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR): 1-5 September, 2008.

 

Regional Consultations on Compensation and Protection: 9-10 July, 2008.

 

Ending Impunity on Sexual and Gender Based Violence

 

 

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