Media persons, web Journalists drilled on promotion, protection of women’s rights
Since the onset of the Anglophone crisis, the West Region has been a receptacle for internally displaced persons from the North-West and South-West regions. The majority are women and girls.
As a result, gender-based violence in all its forms has multiplied at an exponential rate., investigators have revealed. This is the reason why the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and the Family involved journalists from television, radio, print and online press in the fight against gender-based violence.
They were on Monday June 26, 2023 in Bafoussam schooled on the promotion of women’s rights in a humanitarian context.
The related capacity building workshop was chaired by Jean Claude Nzuafo, Regional Delegate for women’s empowerment and the promotion of the family for West Region in collaboration with a team from the Center Region.
The men and women of the media were equipped with the legal rights that governs the protection, promotion of the rights of women and girls. It also included the role they will play to help change the trend of violence inflicted against women in the region.
According to the regional delegate, it is left for the media professionals to intensify awareness for the protection and promotion of women’s rights in a humanitarian contexts in their various communication outlets.
“With the West Region receiving many Internally Displaced Persons among which are women and girls, we have noticed an increase rate of gender based violence in the region. We therefore thought it wise to gather media men and women, web media to see how we can fight against this phenomenon.This is to make sure that, women and girls are less victims of violence and to create awareness on the fact that, these are offenses which are sanctioned by the penal code,”.
He went further to say: “We enlightened victims on ways they can get justice. We are hoping that after this seminar, women will be more aware of their rights. We should make sure that by the end of the day, we notice less acts of gender based violence in our region,”
