{"id":6621,"date":"2024-03-08T08:19:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T08:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=6621"},"modified":"2024-03-08T08:37:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T08:37:54","slug":"womens-day-female-mps-want-more-shelter-for-gbv-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2024\/03\/08\/womens-day-female-mps-want-more-shelter-for-gbv-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Day: Female MPs Want More Shelter for GBV Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif\">By Johnson Kanyesige<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif\">Opposition female legislators have implored the government to urgently construct more shelters to accommodate victims of gender-based violence (GBV) with more interest in women and girls who are prone to the vice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif\">In the joint International Women\u2019s Day message released by the shadow minister for gender labour and social development Ms Fortunate Nantongo, the shelters should be established in all districts of the country so that female victims of gender-based-violence not only find solace but also get empowered to combat the vice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif\">The MPs hope that this will lessen the burden attached to only 13 shelters currently available in the whole country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif\">Nantongo noted that the new shelters should avail refuge, medical support, legal redress as well as psycho-social support to victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif\">This year\u2019s Women\u2019s Day celebrations will be held in Katakwi district under the theme \u2018\u2019Accelerating gender equality through economic empowerment\u2019\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Johnson Kanyesige Opposition female legislators have implored the government to urgently construct more shelters to accommodate victims of gender-based violence (GBV) with more interest in women and girls who are prone to the vice. In the joint International Women\u2019s Day message released by the shadow minister for gender labour and social development Ms Fortunate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6631,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions\/6631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}