Who enforces the law? Who implements policies? Why are women and children still faced with undue trauma and re-traumatization and lack of justice for sexual violence related cases? Why does the onus to prove rape or defilement fall on the victim? Why are there no forensic examinations? Why is investigation still lacking a human face and the judiciary process tiring and unnecessarily prolonged? Who stigmatises? Who keeps SILENT?
A new dawn must fall on the way we look and work on prevention of sexual violence in our society, also on how we have been providing crisis response to victims and what can we do better. We have to wake up to the fact that ALL hands are needed on deck to truly resolve the challenges. Join me as we visit and revisit this old aged problem that has retain its face in time.
