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Majority of GBV victims are women from rural areas – Kuugongelwa-Amadhila<\/em><\/p>\n Speaker of the National Assembly Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila has raised concerns over the persistent vulnerability of rural women to gender-based violence.<\/p>\n Citing the World Health Organisation (2024) report, Kuugongelwa-Amadhila said safety is elusive for many women, with about 35% facing sexual and intimate partner violence, and the majority of victims being rural women.<\/p>\n \n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Majority of GBV victims are women from rural areas – Kuugongelwa-Amadhila Speaker of the National Assembly Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila has raised concerns over the persistent vulnerability of rural women to gender-based violence. Citing the World Health Organisation (2024) report, Kuugongelwa-Amadhila said safety is elusive for many women, with about 35% facing sexual and intimate partner violence, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7311,14080,36833,7334,4706,724,257,6309,254,8402,6524],"class_list":["post-208687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-areas","tag-gbv","tag-kuugongelwaamadhila","tag-majority","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rural","tag-south-africa-today","tag-victims","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/208687","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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