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    The fight against GBV

    Nov 28, 2020 4 minutes
    HENNING MELBER
    AFP

    SINCE early October, hundreds of furious demonstrators – mainly younger women – have taken to the streets of Namibia’s capital, Windhoek, in protest against gender-based violence and femicide.

    Their action was triggered by a series of gruesome assaults on women and girls. Violent police responses only fuelled the outrage and led to continued public protests across several regions and towns.

    A poster held aloft at a #ShutItAll-Down demonstration in Windhoek in mid-October summarised the feelings of women under siege: Words cannot truly explain how TERRIFIED I am to exist as a woman in NAMIBIA.

    Toxic masculinity, it seems, has torn apart a social fabric

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