Country | Eritrea |
Year | 2003 - 2008 |
Type of Measure | Policies > Inclusion of violence against women in other national plan/strategy |
Form of Violence | Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence, Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), Sexual violence |
National Gender and Action Plan (NGAP) 2003-2008. This single document addresses gender related issues and specifically gender based violence. It was developed to ensure that gender concerns are integrated in all aspects of the national development process. The purpose of this plan is to provide a guideline for effective implementation of gender related commitments made by the Government of Eritrea in the following International Conventions and Documents:
Section 5 of the document addresses the issue of violence against women.
5.2 Violence against women
5.2.1 To eradicate practices of rape, wife battering and FGM
5.2.2 Strengthen the implementation and monitoring of international and regional human rights instruments and enable female and male to know how to use them
5.3 Women in situations of armed conflict
5.3.1 Eradicate the social, cultural prejudices against women ex-combatants and land mine victims