Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸

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Decolonial | Ethnocentric | Connecting Data & Evidence with Advocacy & Action to achieve Gender Justice
#TransformingMasculinity

[Mokhatla ☥🦅🛖☥ @RamakoeleM]

In Sesotho culture, when the child is born- the midwives milk the breasts a *little because the child should not suck the first milk or colostrum (lebese la litlobo) Cc @jayletsie101 @matylet @UtaMakhema @MatheVK #Glorytoourculture

[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

"[Basotho] marriage is a collective act contracted not between two individuals but two clans" #decoloniality Cc @matylet @UtaMakhema

[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

The end of year per Gregorian is here- violence fatalities are becoming a normalcy yet the country is without effective policy and legal response. A comprehensive programatic intervention of engaging men is mandatory Cc @ThobolokoN @LiapengRalieng1 @CAN_Femicide @CountDeadWomen

[Thoboloko Nts'onyane🇱🇸 @ThobolokoN]

As Today marks 16 Days of Activism against GBV. Ambassadors have taken a pledge to stand against GBV and violence in all its forms.
#getinvolved
#EndVAW
@EUinLesotho
@USEmbassyMaseru
@WorldvisionLS
@SesothoMedia
@mosena

[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

@ThobolokoN @PolokoMokhele_ @gender_ Highly commendable- there is need to mobilise communities to end GBV.

[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

Lesotho Murder Kaleidoscope
When violence Prevention and Response are cheering and spectating premature lives lost,
Accountability in total state of incapacitation
Revenge prism as Justice.
#Femicide
@ThobolokoN

[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

Being a victim is a double whammy!

[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

@True_AtomTheory Sure, thanks

[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

Femicide and Murder Cases in Lesotho for July: Female: 09
Male: 48
"Conflict is inevitable but violence is a choice" As Basotho have we chosen the latter?

[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

How do Men benefit from social inequality and equally become victims ?

[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

Homicide & Femicide Cases Recorded in Lesotho June 2023.
Do we have adequate prevention and response measures as the country? #Basotholivesmatter

[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

Do the lives of Basotho matter? While the government and faith community leadership are fixated with Zodwa this is the status quo of indiscriminate violence.

[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

@RethabiMakhetha @mdu_percy August is solar based counting in the gregorian calendar while Phato is sighting of the new moon after winter solstice (Phato is lunar based)

[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

@RethabiMakhetha @mdu_percy August and Phato a two different things Mme @RethabiMakhetha

[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

@RethabiMakhetha @Ms_M_S_Lerata Ha hona lebaka la ho etsa joalo. Paseka re ntse re e ela hloko ngoaha le ngoaha ho boloka meetlo ea teng. Ha re etseng joalo ka ngoaha ea rona Basotho.

[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

Please look at the Comments and Analysis section to appreciate How Basotho trace the new year. connecting Data and Evidence with Advocacy and Action🧠

[The Reporter - Lesotho @TheReporterLS]

The Reporter: FRIDAY 28 JULY, 2023

Activists slam Council of State. 'Poisoned' soldier's family want answers. Cyber security law - a rough balancing act

TENDERS AND VACANCIES INSIDE

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[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

Cc @visitlesotho

[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

'Motho ke Motho ka Batho' Let us invoke this spirit as we celebrate and welcome the beginning of Phato ea makoatle and New Year!! Cc @MorijaMuseum @matylet @UtaMakhema @ThobolokoN @LiapengRalieng1

[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

May Reports: 44 Murder Cases Recorded
Victims: 10 women and 34 Men
Perpetrator Profile: 42 Cases principal suspects are Men and 2 Cases were a Public Mob

#there is need to invest in masculinity transformation
@Gender_Academy we are a men-engage hub.

[Gender Equality Academy & Femicide Observatory🇱🇸 @Gender_Academy]

May Reports: 44 Murder Cases Recorded
Victims: 10 women and 34 Men
Perpetrator Profile: 42 Cases principal suspects are Men and 2 Cases were a Public Mob