Samira Bawumia engages Muslim girls on sexual and gender-based violence
Accra – Samira Bawumia has engaged 100 adolescent Muslim girls at a mentoring session of a Faith-Based Organisation Conference.
The theme for the conference organised by the UNFPA GHANA was, “Comprehensive Sexuality and Demographic Dividend”,
The interaction with the girls was to discuss issues affecting their lives and their aspirations.
According to the wife of the vice president, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the engagement was to promote the “agency” of the girls and their ability to make informed choices on issues affecting them.
According to her, “Today’s generation of adolescent girls are more vulnerable to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Harmful Practices (SGBVs&HPs), yet it is shrouded in a culture of silence.”
Mrs Bawumia also addressed a gathering of religious leaders on the need to advocate better case management of SGBVs&HPs, in Ghana.
She called on religious leaders to intensify the advocacy to enable the country to break the walls of silence around SGBVs&HPs, “because it is by doing so that we can effectively be a voice for the voiceless.”
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