{"id":183916,"date":"2024-11-04T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroonians-see-gender-based-violence-as-a-key-womens-rights-issue-but-tolerate-use-of-physical-force-against-wives\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T11:24:08","slug":"cameroonians-see-gender-based-violence-as-a-key-womens-rights-issue-but-tolerate-use-of-physical-force-against-wives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroonians-see-gender-based-violence-as-a-key-womens-rights-issue-but-tolerate-use-of-physical-force-against-wives\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroonians See Gender-Based Violence As a Key Women&#8217;s-Rights Issue but Tolerate Use of Physical Force Against Wives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">About half of citizens say violence against women and girls is a common occurrence in their community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gender-based violence (GBV) ranks second on a list of the most important issues related to women&#8217;s rights that Cameroonians want their government and society to address.<\/li>\n<li>About half (48%) of citizens say violence against women and girls is a &#8220;somewhat common&#8221; or &#8220;very common&#8221; occurrence in their community.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly two-thirds (63%) of Cameroonians believe it is &#8220;sometimes&#8221; (47%) or&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411040011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About half of citizens say violence against women and girls is a common occurrence in their community. Key findings Gender-based violence (GBV) ranks second on a list of the most important issues related to women&#8217;s rights that Cameroonians want their government and society to address. About half (48%) of citizens say violence against women and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,377,17462,4383,9518,8922,7274,257,12630,254,8596,2148,18986,43309],"class_list":["post-183916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroonians","tag-force","tag-genderbased","tag-issue","tag-key","tag-news","tag-physical","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tolerate","tag-violence","tag-wives","tag-womensrights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}