{"id":73826,"date":"2019-01-30T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=73826"},"modified":"2019-01-30T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T09:24:00","slug":"respect-women-if-you-want-our-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/30\/respect-women-if-you-want-our-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Respect women if you want our vote\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Rebecca Chimjeka:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Civil society organisations (CSOs) and gender activists have said they will not vote for political parties and leaders who cannot take a clear stand against violence in politics.<\/p>\n<p>The human rights activists made their stance through a petition which they delivered to Lilongwe District Commissioner (DC) Lawford Palani Tuesday after embarking on a march, from Crossroads Hotel roundabout, aimed at protesting escalating cases of politically motivated violence targeting women and opposition party followers.<\/p>\n<p>Governing Democratic Progressive Party Cadets are among those linked with the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Police have arrested some suspects in Mangochi District in connection with the stripping half-naked of a UTM female follower as she was travelling to the party\u2019s rally in the district.<\/p>\n<p>In view of this, women from various political parties and CSOs attended the march, which ended with GCN Gender Coordinator, Barbra Banda, delivering the petition to the DC.<\/p>\n<p>Banda said they were dissatisfied with how issues of political violence are being handled by stakeholders.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cA political party and a political leader that cannot take a clear stand on violence in politics does not deserve our votes and we are ready to take drastic measures if our demands are not met,\u201d<\/em> Banda said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after receiving the petition, Palani, said: <em>\u201cWe will definitely deliver it to the relevant authorities.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last week, the CSOs held a press conference where they condemned incidents of violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rebecca Chimjeka: Civil society organisations (CSOs) and gender activists have said they will not vote for political parties and leaders who cannot take a clear stand against violence in politics. The human rights activists made their stance through a petition which they delivered to Lilongwe District Commissioner (DC) Lawford Palani Tuesday after embarking on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73831,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73826\/revisions\/73831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}