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The concept of stopping violence against women andand human trafficking, Stop sexual harassment and rape, International Women’s Day.
The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund says some children who grow up abused or exposed to violence end up being perpetrators of gender-based violence.
The Children’s Fund held a discussion at the Inanda Club in Sandton, north of Johannesburg, on the State of Child Violence in South Africa.
Statistics by Unicef show that at least three children are killed in the country each day.
As the world marks Children’s Day, Dr Linda Ncube, Nkomo, CEO of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund says the violence that some children experience at a young age in their homes, can lead to societal problems.
“Violence against children and how that ends up being gender-based violence … when children are victims of violence, when children witness violence, especially the partner violence that they see at homes, it becomes normalised. And then we end up dealing with gender-based violence. We end up dealing with sexual harassment in workplaces, with bullying in workplaces and a lot of intrapersonal violence because we normalise violence in our homes,” says Ncube.
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