Ensuring 7% reduction of all forms of sexual harassment against women and girls, including Child marriages by 2030

Women play a critical role in sustainable development when they are healthy, educated and free from all forms of abuse. Yet, gender-based violence denies women and girls opportunities to fully utilize their basic human rights. Worse still is the fact that despite having laws women and girls are still oppressed. This is because little is known about these laws and the laws that are available still have a lot of loopholes.

Women’s March Zimbabwe as part of the Broader Community of Women’s March Global stands for the rights of marginalized women and in situations where the law and policy environment does not allow them to reach their full potential is committed to the ICPD conference. As such, in line with the highlighted commitments of ICPD25, Women’s March Harare will be addressing the issue of Gender-Based Violence and in Particular Sexual Harassment. The following is a break-down of the commitments:

1) Educating adolescent girls on their sexual and reproductive health rights
2) Give comprehensive education on laws that protect victims of Gender-based violence to the ordinary citizen.
3) Creating awareness to all on what constitutes sexual harassment and what has been addressed by the constitutional law.
4) Identifying constitutional and policy loopholes towards effective implementation of specific laws addressing Gender-Based Violence in Zimbabwe.

Towards achieving these goals we intend to do a lot of capacity building and civic engagement and also use social media as an advocacy tool.

Mode of engagement:

• Policy and guidance
  Identifying constitutional and policy loopholes towards effective implementation of laws addressing Gender-Based Violence in Zimbabwe are crucial. We intend to play a consultative role in policy amendment and development and capacity building citizen