East Africa: Sex and Gender Based Violence in the Great Lakes Region

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Author: 
AllAfrica
Africa
Central Africa

The International Conference on the Great Lakes region has been the incubator for the formulation of landmark protocol and model legislation for the region in the areas of Prevention and Suppression of Sexual Violence against Women and Children. The Protocol seeks to fill the legal void that prevails in most of the legal systems in the countries of the region as a response to the systemic rape of women and children in the Great Lakes Region.

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VAW_GBVGreatLakes_Mulamula_2008.doc