President Hifikepunye Pohamba said he was ashamed by the high levels of gender-based violence and the hideous crimes committed against women by Namibian men.
Speaking at the second National Gender-Based Violence Conference, organised by the Office of the Prime Minister yesterday in the capital, Pohamba said the country has gained a shameful reputation because of the ongoing violence.
“What kind of a society am I leading? We continue to lose innocent lives, especially those of women and girls as a result of gender-based violence, perpetrated mostly by men. We are destroying the good name of our country,” he said.
The conference running under the theme ‘Unifying Action to Eliminate Gender-Based Violence in Namibia’ was attended by different stakeholders, among them traditional leaders, gender-based violence survivors, and church leaders.
The chairperson of the Council of Traditional Leaders, Immanuel Gaseb, said the Namibian society has lost its moral values…
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