Meeting Report of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region’s Regional Training Facility (ICGLR-RTF) and the Population Council
Working with the Police Sector to Meet the Needs of Sexual Violence Survivors in the Great Lakes Region Click here to view full report
GIZ, Dr. Denis Mukwege and Panzi Foundations and ICGLR combine Efforts to prevent and respond to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the Great Lakes Region
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Message from the Executive secretary on Covid-19 to the ICGLR member states
The whole world is going through a serious health crisis linked to the sudden appearance of the coronavirus pandemic or commonly known as COVID-19. All states are facing an unprecedented health, economic and social crisis. The countries of the Great Lakes Region are not spared from this. Read more
Covid-19 and Domestic Violence: Four Ways Out of a Double Pandemic, By Nathan Mwesigye Byamukama
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages around the world, women and girls are more vulnerable than ever. With the world staying at home due to the pandemic, we see a rise in sexual and gender based violence including domestic violence. It is a double pandemic for women and girls. Domestic violence keeps exponentially increasing and faster than the COVID – 19 in lockdown families. We need to effectively handle the two pandemics concurrently because the two kill, if not prevented. It is [...]
Regional Countries urged to do more to combat SGBV
“Sexual and Gender Based Violence is one of the biggest wars that we have today in the Great Lakes Region,” Uganda’s State Minister for Gender and Culture- Peace Mutuuzo told a Regional Symposium on the best practices to combat SGBV in the Great Lakes region on Thursday December 12, 2019. The three days’ symposium at the Speke Resort- Munyonyo, Kampala brought together SGBV experts from all the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) member States as well [...]
BRIEF REPORT ON THE STUDY TOUR OF BURUNDIAN DELEGATION TO RTF AND GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES WORKING ON SGBV », 24th – 29th JUNE 2019
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