CEDAW rep says new bill fails human rights standards

Human rights expert Marion Bethel said yesterday the Protection of Violence Bill, 2023, which MPs passed on Thursday night, fails to support an internationally accepted human rights approach to the critical issue of gender-based violence and added that the legislation is far less comprehensive in addressing the issue than the Gender-Based Violence Bill, 2016, which

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