The United State Agency for International Development (USAID), state-to-state, has called on journalists to amplify the voices of women and girls toward ending Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Ebonyi state.
The international organisation made the call during a media round table in commemoration of the 2022 Activism Against Gender-Based Violence in the state.
Gender Specialist with USAID State-to-State, Ejiro Okotie, at the event called on journalists to double their efforts in reporting the menace.
She stated that women and girls have continued to be at the receiving end of GBV saying that tradition and culture were the major factors responsible for it.
She said: “Let us think what we can do in terms of action towards ending all forms of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Ebonyi state.
“We want to work with the media to ensure that we amplify the voices of women and girls to end GBV in the state. We want to see how the media can amplify messages on GBV to end the menace.
“Violence against women and girls has been a very critical issue and many times, a lot of it gets unreported because there is a lot of silence around it.
“Women and girls have continued to be at the receiving end of GBV simply because of different factors, traditional, cultural factors.”
