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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>PATRIACHAL norms promoting masculinity and female submissiveness are fuelling Gender Based Violence (GBV) and violence against women and girls (VAWG) in Lesotho and other African countries.<\/p>\n

This according to MenEngage Lesotho Country Coordinator, Seabata Makoae. He said this while addressing last week\u2019s virtual Southern Africa Youth Forum. SAYoF is a regional platform for youths and youth organisations in the SADC region.<\/p>\n

It aims to make youths \u201cimportant players and stakeholders in regional processes, to ensure their participation in sustainable transformation and in the agenda set by SADC Heads of State\u201d.<\/p>\n

SAYoF is also promoting youth leadership and governance, transitional justice and peace building, climate change and the environment; business and entrepreneurship; disability; development cooperation and integration in the region.<\/p>\n

Its forum, from 10 to 13 August 2021, was held virtually as a series of webinars with participants drawn from various SADC countries under the theme: \u2018Blue and Green Economy for Sustainable Development\u2019.<\/p>\n

One webinar tackled GBV and VAWG, exploring and proffering potential solutions to the twin scourges which have afflicted Lesotho, southern Africa and the continent.<\/p>\n

One speaker was Mr Makoae, who represented MenEngage Lesotho- a network of organisations which seek to engage men and boys to promote and protect the rights of women and girls.<\/p>\n

He blamed patriarchal notions of a dominant masculinity and a conversely subservient female for fuelling GBV and VAWG. \u201cNotions that men are strong, superior and they should use violence to put a woman in \u2018her place\u2019 are fuelling GBV,\u201d Mr Makoae said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to these notions, a man must always have control and he must not be vulnerable. Women must be submissive towards their partner and male figures in the family.<\/p>\n

They should be complicit with male privilege and entitlement in order to protect male egos. They should play their part to uphold male dominance. \u201cViolence is seen as an acceptable way to enforce male control and domination.<\/p>\n

It is normalised. It is reinforced by the state and community leadership, in families, relationships and among individuals. Women are not expected to report violence; men are encouraged be violent and control women to prove their manhood.<\/p>\n

Women link violence with love,\u201d Mr Makoae said. \u201cHowever, the notion that a man is a provider is proving to be problematic and it is pushing men to do things that are dangerous and unhealthy.<\/p>\n

This is because when they are unable to provide, they are rendered men purposeless; it is as though their manhood has been taken away. Only an insane person can deny that there is something monumentally wrong with manhood and masculinity today,\u201d Mr Makoae said.<\/p>\n

He said the resultant GBV and VAWG were serious human rights violations which had proved to be obstacles to the attainment of national and international development goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn southern Africa, GBV, and especially VAWG, is among the most severe and wide-spread forms of human rights violations. The prevalence and acceptance of VAWG in Southern Africa is very high in international comparison.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only is VAWG a grave violation of human rights, it is also a serious obstacle to the progress of countries towards the attainment of national and international development goals.<\/p>\n

\u201d He said all was however, not lost, adding that since violence was learned behaviour, it could also be unlearned.<\/p>\n

He said in addition, the elimination of VAWG is explicitly listed as a target of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on gender equality and SDG 16 which aims at a significant reduction of all forms of violence.<\/p>\n

Eliminating GBV and VAWG was also one of the aims of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development, he said. Lesotho, in particular, has an added incentive to tackle GBV and VAWG.<\/p>\n

A Commonwealth report of September 2020 found that violence against women and girls is costing the country at least 5, 5 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) through absenteeism from work by victims, court litigations, hospitalisation and counselling among other things.<\/p>\n

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