{"id":76645,"date":"2019-04-10T03:47:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T01:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=76645"},"modified":"2019-04-10T03:47:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T01:47:45","slug":"pac-decries-political-violence-against-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/04\/10\/pac-decries-political-violence-against-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac decries political violence against women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Bernard Mhone: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_76649\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76649\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sophia-nthenda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-76649\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sophia-nthenda-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sophia-nthenda-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sophia-nthenda.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NTHENDA\u2014 We do not want political rallies to be hostile environment to women<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Public Affairs Committee (Pac) has urged electoral stakeholders to guard against violence gender-based ahead of the May 21 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/mec-ready-for-tripartite-elections\/\">Tripartite Elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pac Gender Programme Officer, Sophia Nthenda, said this during a capacity-building training on peace organised as part of Women in Faith Programme.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe do not want political rallies to be hostile environment to women aspiring councillors and members of Parliament. We should guard against cases of violence,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Northern Region Women in Faith Chairperson, Reverend Margret Kalimanjira, said the training could enable the women to be financially independent.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cMost women do not have enough resources for political activities, which makes them vulnerable to abuse. It is, therefore, important that we have reached out to 100 women today,\u201d<\/em> Kalimanjira said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Women were, among other areas, drilled in public speaking, decision-making and business skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bernard Mhone: Public Affairs Committee (Pac) has urged electoral stakeholders to guard against violence gender-based ahead of the May 21 Tripartite Elections. Pac Gender Programme Officer, Sophia Nthenda, said this during a capacity-building training on peace organised as part of Women in Faith Programme. \u201cWe do not want political rallies to be hostile environment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76645","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=76645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76650,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76645\/revisions\/76650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}