End Gender-Based Violence- CENGOs

As part of efforts to reduce the high rate of gender-based violence, the Coalition of Eastern Non-governmental Organizations (CENGOs) has decried the high rate of gender-based violence.
Speaking to newsmen during a press briefing in Port Harcourt, recently, the CENGOs Rivers State programme officer, Franklyn Nelson, described Gender-based violence as violence directed against a person because of their gender, adding that both women and men experience gender-based violence but the majority of victims are women, girls and boys.
Nelson noted that gender-based violence is inflicted on women and girls, by men, saying that it highlights the fact that many forms of violence against women and girls are rooted in power inequalities between women and men.
The CENGOs Rivers State programme officer stated that gender-based violence and violence against women were regarded as gendered act, which he described as “a violation of human rights and a form of discrimination against women”.
He frowned at situations whereby men beat their wives, resulting in ‘physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm / suffering to women.

By: Susan Serekara-Nwikhana