ZPP implores govt to adopt gender responsive actions

THE Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has implored government to adopt comprehensive gender-responsive action plans such as enacting laws protecting women in order to eliminate gender-based violence.

The human rights group, in a statement to mark 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence, said women continue to bear the brunt of different forms of violence.

ZPP said this partly stems from Zimbabwe being a patriarchal society, with deeply rooted gender norms, stereotypes, systematic inequalities and unequal power dynamics based on gender.

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