BRISONS LE SILENCE: RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

The Diaka Camara Fondation launched its latest awareness campaign on may 11th 2021. It shines a new light on the issue of gender based violence in Guinea.

The launch event for the campaign saw a variety of stakeholders participate in a roundtable on the topic (The Ministry of Women’s rights, IOM, ONFPP, UN GUINEA, CANAL+, RIO TINTO, FONDATION PROMSI…).

The roundtable focussed on three main topics:

• The Diagnostic of GBV
• Ways to limit the prevalence of GBV
• Support and treatment of GBV survivors

The campaign focuses on educating the audience on the differents forms of GBV that girls and women face in the guinean society. Its tagline is #BrisonsLeSilence and its is supported by his excelency Professor Alpha Condé, President of the Republic of Guinea and Ms. Hadja Djèné Kaba, the First Lady of Guinea. This patronages shows how seriously the matter is taken in Guinea.

The Diaka Camara Foundation will manage this campaign in Print as well as on social networks by producing educational videos encouraging survivors to speak up and allow jutice to be made so that gender based violence can be erradicated from the guinean society.