Taraba agency calls for stronger action against rising gender-based violence

The Taraba State Aids Control Agency (TACA) has urged residents of Taraba State to intensify nationalist consciousness and instrumentality proactive measures to code the rising cases of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) crossed the state.

The entreaty was made during the Gender and Human Rights (GHR) and State Response Team (SRT) quarterly gathering held successful Jalingo, wherever stakeholders from assorted sectors gathered to deliberate connected GBV and kid rights issues.

Speaking, TACA’s Gender and Human Rights Focal Person, Charity Yakubu, called connected citizens to determination beyond passive consciousness and go actively progressive successful combating maltreatment and rights violations, stressing that individuals indispensable not lone “see thing and accidental something” but besides instrumentality decisive steps erstwhile confronted with specified cases.

Yakubu explained that the GHR/SRT level provides a quarterly accidental to reappraisal GBV-related issues, peculiarly those affecting persons surviving with HIV/AIDS and different susceptible groups. She emphasised that tackling GBV requires a coordinated effort involving authorities agencies, non-governmental organisations, spiritual bodies, and individuals.

“At each level, radical indispensable instrumentality work by educating and informing others astir quality rights and the dangers of GBV,” she said.

TACA, she further stated, cannot code the occupation alon...