Building a gender violence free society

In Rwanda the Gender Based Violence act describes violence against women as any act that results in a bodily, psychological, sexual and economic harm. These are the different forms of abuse women have historically silently been subjected to. This is now a thing of the past. There is now legal recourse against men who have over the years with impunity thought they had a privilege of abusing women’s rights. Male privilege arising out of the socialization the boy child has been subjected to, meant him believing he was superior and dominant over the assumed weaker female sex. No matter his level of education or exposure in life the boy child has sadly been stuck in the primitive past of him being superior to the female sex.