This initiative is the first of its kind and aims to sensitize police and other law enforcement officials on how to interview children who have endured sexual violence.
Programmes are underway to sensitize police and other law enforcement personnel in order to equip them with the capacity to conduct child-friendly procedures.
Kant: In collaboration with law enforcement agencies across the country, we have helped conduct training sessions to sensitize police officers across the country.
The harm reduction program is also currently working with the law enforcement sector to sensitize them on the issues related to PWID and harm reduction.
-Anna, New Zealand ProstInuthe Colasttive.
This education campaign teaching about the negative effects of FGM and sensitizing about what the anti FGM law.
Although RWAMREC sensitizes communities to IPV laws during umaganda, the monthly national day of service, and facilitates dialogues about IPV in umugoroba w'abashakanye evening meetings of five to ten couples [ 20], further initiatives like these, along with time, may be needed to shift attitudes toward gender roles in Rwanda.
These obstacles must, however, be addressed and include resistance to legal change by the traditional healers, passivity of some public officials, lack of sufficient resources at the state level to sensitize the population, and the lack of knowledge of the law banning FGM.
The number of reported cases is increasing rapidly, indicating that the law has made a substantial contribution in educating the public, sensitizing the criminal justice system, and making the reporting of CSA not just acceptable, but also mandatory.
The next step, they say, is sensitizing everyone who can play a part in combating it, from members of the public to judges, law enforcement officers and medical workers, as well as making sure that women and girls know their legal rights.
