{"id":39063,"date":"2019-03-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/establish-root-causes-and-act-on-persistent\/"},"modified":"2019-03-30T13:59:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T13:59:48","slug":"establish-root-causes-and-act-on-persistent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/establish-root-causes-and-act-on-persistent\/","title":{"rendered":"Establish root causes and act on persistent gender based violence–Clerics"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the Wednesday discussions with different stakeholders and clerics on measures to address such violence, the president of RICH, Bishop Thadd\u00e9e Ntihinyurwa said that church leaders have a duty to collaborate with government to seek solutions to gender-based violence highlighting the need to first establish the root cause.<\/p>\n

\u201cResearch indicated that cultural practices rooted on negative mindsets are among issues fueling the problem. It is necessary to analyze the matter from its roots so that we can find a durable solution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Bishop of Anglican Church in Butare Diocese, Nathan Gasatura observed that some leaders are nowadays concerned with symptoms other than the cause of GBV. <\/p>\n

Gasatura attributed the increase of violence to hard life prohibiting parents to stay closer with children to acquaint them with education serving as the basis for humanity. <\/p>\n

Bishop Gasatura also reflected on technology enabling children to negatively use social media. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like the pace of technology, using WhatsApp and Twitter among others, has replaced our children\u2019s food. What a child acquires from these platforms occupies his\/her mind and tend to explore how things are done. Such porn films are another form of drugs,\u201d he commented. <\/p>\n

Rwanda\u2019s Mufti, Sheikh Hitimana Salim said that Rwandan community can\u2019t be assured of security when violence cases against girls and women persist. <\/p>\n

He explained that it is the duty of clerics to seek to solution and highlighted the need to go deeper into root causes of such problems first. <\/p>\n

Reports indicate that the National Prosecution received 2,996 defilement cases between July 2017 and June 2018. <\/p>\n

It also received 505 cases for violence against women and 1,091 violence cases between spouses in the same period. <\/p>\n

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Clerics in Rwanda Interfaith Council on Health (RICH) have called for deep investigation to establish the root cause of persistent violence against girls and women. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39063","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39063"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39063"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}