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Chairperson, the initiatives to address the root causes of gender-based violence and femicide extend beyond the Department of Justice and Correctional Services and the Security Cluster and incorporate measures to address the social elements that breeds criminality needs the whole government, it needs the private sector, it needs civil society, it needs the NGOs and it needs everyone in society. It is a thing that all of us have to work together also to deal with the scourge of gender-based violence to deal with it. The department alone will not succeed.
It is for this reason that it is important that the security collaborate with other Cabinet clusters
including other social players in our society to deal and respond decisively to issues of patriarchy and gender relations in society. Thank you.