Campaign against negative gender issues to be launched

Accra, Jan. 29, GNA - Dudu Communications, a Multimedia Production Centre, would on February 19-20 host a theatre performance on "Vagina Monologue" to campaign against negative gender related issues in Ghana. The performance is part of a project dubbed "V-Day, Until the Violence Stops Campaign," which is to be replicated nationwide to highlight issues bordering on rape, forced marriage, verbal assault, battery, incest, female genital mutilation and sexual slavery.

The V-Day is a global movement founded by Eve Ensler, an American playwright, with the aim of projecting feminism. Nii Tete Yartey, Head of Public Relations of Dudu Communications, announced this at a press briefing in Accra.

He noted that women in the country were often subjected to violence by those they trusted and loved.

Nii Tete said: "As part of our contribution to women empowerment and gender related issues, proceeds from the show will be used to organize educational talks, workshops and other shows nationwide to support the fight of violence against women and children.

He said information gathered on violence against women and children from the Domestic Violence Victim Support Unit of the Police Service indicated that the menace was rising and needed to be curbed. "It is our collective responsibility as Ghanaians to treat the issue with urgency," Nii Tete, said. 29 Jan. 10