If the #MeToo wave has not invaded Africa, more and more feminist movements are organizing to defend their rights. In Chad, the Chadian Women’s Rights League, a movement created in 2020, intends to make June 21 a day of citizen engagement against gender-based violence in Chad. Last year, activists shouted their anger in the street. This year, unable to demonstrate, they organized a rally in a district of the capital.
With our correspondent in Ndjamena, Aurélie Bazzara-Kibangula
Paint to write words against violence against women. In front of a banner stretched on a wall in the Moursal district, Parfait launches. “I wrote stop GBV (gender-based violence). Every week, we hear that a woman has been abused, a young girl has been raped, more and more gender violence is on the rise. »
Beside him, Madjinadoumna Sophie nods and expresses her anger. “I’m fed up, a lot of women are dying. Recently, a woman was burned alive by her husband, I don’t know if it was her fiancé. It’s too much! »
In Chad, there are no figures on violence against women. But these remain alarming according to Raissa Madibé, member of the Chadian league for women’s rights. She explains that if it is urgent to break taboos, justice must also be more effective.
“Most often, when this kind of business has come to justice, either the files are closed or the victim is first traumatized to the point where they cannot express themselves. So the out-of-court settlement on this kind of business is really big. Victims are discouraged from taking these issues to court, because justice does nothing. »
A main objective, therefore, for activists: to be heard again and again. Other actions are planned by the Chadian league for women’s rights in the hope of changing mentalities.
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