A civil society organization in Yei River County has called on citizens to promptly report any abuse to the concerned authorities to ensure justice prevails.
The call comes following a late reporting of a rape case where a man believed to be in his 40s rapped a ten year old girl in Pakula quarter council of Yei municipality last week, and the report was delayed for days before reaching the police.
Community Empowerment for Rehabilitation and Development-CEFoRD condemned the act, and called for apprehending and meting of justice to the perpetrator.
“The perpetrators must be brought to book and justice must be accorded,” said Mawa George Lazarus, the organization’s programme coordinator. He decried that most cases of abuse are not reported to the authorities and this in turn promotes the act.
“Some two days ago, I also heard another incident happening around Logobero. The challenge is that such kinds of issues are not reported,” he said.
Mawa challenged social workers to perform their task through regular visits to the grassroots, especially payams and bomas so that they can gather information about abuses in the community.
He echoed calls to law enforcement agents to ensure that reported cases are transparently and honestly handled in accordance to the demands of the law.
“They need to perform their task the way the laws demand them to do,” he added.
The civil society organizations will continue to engage with the law enforcement bodies so that justice prevails to violators of human rights as stipulated in the law, he said.
Women usually complain of lack of justice for violators of their rights. Last year, they decried that lenient sentences are encouraging more abuses because violators are punished contrary to the demands of the law.
Victoria Nasera, the county assistant commissioner of gender, child and social development said her department has been holding awareness campaigns against domestic violence in the payams and bomas, which she believes could help reduce violence against women and children.
“There is a lot of domestic violence in the community and even the work load in houses, making girls to fail in school,” she said.
Despite the efforts in place, Mawa says more financial support is needed to supplement women associations and offices to collectively step up activities, including awareness campaigns, on the dangers of gender based violence.
“We appeal that the county women association and other stakeholders need to be supported to do more of their work,” he says.
A civil society organization in Yei River County has called on citizens to promptly report any abuse to the concerned authorities to ensure justice prevails.
The call comes following a late reporting of a rape case where a man believed to be in his 40s rapped a ten year old girl in Pakula quarter council of Yei municipality last week, and the report was delayed for days before reaching the police.
Community Empowerment for Rehabilitation and Development-CEFoRD condemned the act, and called for apprehending and meting of justice to the perpetrator.
“The perpetrators must be brought to book and justice must be accorded,” said Mawa George Lazarus, the organization’s programme coordinator. He decried that most cases of abuse are not reported to the authorities and this in turn promotes the act.
“Some two days ago, I also heard another incident happening around Logobero. The challenge is that such kinds of issues are not reported,” he said.
Mawa challenged social workers to perform their task through regular visits to the grassroots, especially payams and bomas so that they can gather information about abuses in the community.
He echoed calls to law enforcement agents to ensure that reported cases are transparently and honestly handled in accordance to the demands of the law.
“They need to perform their task the way the laws demand them to do,” he added.
The civil society organizations will continue to engage with the law enforcement bodies so that justice prevails to violators of human rights as stipulated in the law, he said.
Women usually complain of lack of justice for violators of their rights. Last year, they decried that lenient sentences are encouraging more abuses because violators are punished contrary to the demands of the law.
Victoria Nasera, the county assistant commissioner of gender, child and social development said her department has been holding awareness campaigns against domestic violence in the payams and bomas, which she believes could help reduce violence against women and children.
“There is a lot of domestic violence in the community and even the work load in houses, making girls to fail in school,” she said.
Despite the efforts in place, Mawa says more financial support is needed to supplement women associations and offices to collectively step up activities, including awareness campaigns, on the dangers of gender based violence.
“We appeal that the county women association and other stakeholders need to be supported to do more of their work,” he says.