{"id":32525,"date":"2017-02-13T10:44:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T10:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/premier-murekezi-urges-women-leaders-on\/"},"modified":"2017-02-15T00:57:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T00:57:10","slug":"premier-murekezi-urges-women-leaders-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/premier-murekezi-urges-women-leaders-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Murekezi urges women leaders on decimating domestic violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Prime Minister Anastase Murekezi has requested women leaders called \u2018Mutima w\u2019urugo\u2019 heart of the family) who have completed a nine-day civic education at Nkumba to work together to eradicate domestic violence as it triggers social instability. } <\/p>\n<p> \u201cTake the lead in fighting against domestic violence because we can\u2019t keep tolerating people depriving Rwandans of their lives. You have heard that statistics from police indicated that 142 including 64 men and 78 women died of domestic violence in 2016. This is a total mismatch with our moral values. We need cooperation  to fight against the vice,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Premier Murekezi asked them to boost awareness on  gender equality issues among  Rwandan communities.  <\/p>\n<p>Civic education trainees commended the training calling it a weapon to fighting against the evil. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA woman has potential in promoting the family, which is what  we have pledged  among our performance contracts. We are going to train our peers  to preserve the culture of holding discussions to breed  solutions for and eliminate domestic violence,\u201d said Uwamahoro Claudine. <\/p>\n<p>Uwayisenga Lusef said \u201cWe are going to revise the way we hold parents\u2019 forum (Umugoroba w\u2019ababyeyi) to incorporate cultural recitals, recognize transformed households in sorting out from conflicts and help  families where domestic violence persists. We will also explain them what the  law provisions against violence are.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>The civic education closed yesterday brought together 436 women and 20 men and was held for the 4th time since 2014. A total of 1323 women leaders have benefited from similar trainings since its inception.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18182 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-1488-b733f.jpg\" alt=\"Premier Murekezi Anastase (second from left) with other officials closing women leaders civic education yesterday.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18180 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-1349-0acd7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18181 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/7-535-e7012.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Prime Minister Anastase Murekezi has requested women leaders called \u2018Mutima w\u2019urugo\u2019 heart of the family) who have completed a nine-day civic education at Nkumba to work together to eradicate domestic violence as it triggers social instability. } \u201cTake the lead in fighting against domestic violence because we can\u2019t keep tolerating people depriving Rwandans of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32525"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32525"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}