{{The Minister of Gender and Family promotion Aloysia Inyumba has called for a joint efforts to end all kinds of Gender Based Violence.}}

Minister Inyumba was speaking at the kicking off of the national campaign against Gender Based Violence which will take a whole week.

“The campaign is to value Rwandan citizens by fighting Gender Based Violence which is the best way to promote our families,” Inyumba said at the campaign set off which begun with a fight-against Gender Based Violence walk from Gishushu near RDB to petit Stade, Remera about 3 km distance.

Inyumba called upon all institution to participate in the whole campaign and make the matter never happen again in Rwanda.

The campaign comes at a time when the government is also calling for stronger family values in Rwanda society.

Among other participants, Bonaventure Habimana in the campaign said it will create awareness especially to men in villages who have not yet recognized the importance of women in the society.

According to the police statistics this year, 500 cases were reported on defilement compared to 1654 cases last year and 14 to 34 women were killed by their husbands, 6 to 9 men killed by their women this year and last year respectively.

Others include 171 were rape cases of people above 18 years, 239 fighting cases, and 35 were suicide resulting from the violence.

Both public and private institutions including the Rwanda National Police, Rwanda Defense Forces, Prisons, and schools among others participated.

Previously Assistant Commissioner of Police Vianney Nshimiyimana said that Rwanda has reached at Zero Torrance on Gender Based Violence phase.

Nshimiyimana said however that Gender Based Violence related crimes have reduced and needs to be wiped out from families.

Some argument from public stressed that drugs and alcohol were the major causes of this brutality.

Odda Gasinzigwa the Chief Gender Monitor commended the Rwanda National Police for its increased fight against GBV noting that its due to such actions that GBV crimes has drastically reduced.
She however noted that more needs to be done by general public in the struggle as she stressed that “Intensifying this campaign, it needs us to come together, identify areas to tackle to manage or deal with the various cases of GBV, some of which are psychological,”

The violence includes physical, sexual, psychological and economic abuse, and it cuts across boundaries of age, race, culture, wealth and geography.
These take place in homes, on the streets, schools, workplace, in farm fields, refugee camps, during conflicts and crises.

These violations have many manifestations from the most universally prevalent forms of domestic and sexual violence, to harmful practices, abuse during pregnancy, so-called honour killings and other types of femicide.