this is the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes it's getting out of hand zero grave crisis has sparked a huge public outcry. speaking to the country's press they beat the model view. also coming out. as a crime in kenya. change that on friday we meet one woman over. the huge impact. welcome to news africa i'm glad you tuned in rape and sexual violence has been a continuing crisis in syria and for years and is getting worse in fact it has led president to declare it's a national emergency he media announcements are made public outcry over the issue

after recorded cases of rape and sexual assaults doubled in the past year two thousand five hundred activists believe the actual figure to be much higher as many victims don't report sexual attacks and shocking statistic seventy percent of the victims are under the age of fifteen one recent high profile case involved a three month old baby president view also announced that people convicted of sexual offenses against minors will be imprisoned for life the move was welcomed by activists and victims of sexual violence. that advocate represents the rights. we welcome it because it is bringing spotlight on attention to that issue that we believe.

this is a welcome idea. this thing has been going on for so long and we're so happy that this president wants to finance talk to me and we just hope that you know the proper implementation of the new you know we've been dealing with these issues i have been following on these matters both in courts and also in homes i visit homes of some of the survivors and we know how much pain do go through joining me from her residence in freetown is the first lady of syria only on my dime fighting my below she's also a woman's activist campaigning against gal child violence thank you very much mrs beale for making time for us and first of all how do you feel about the president's declaration of calling this a national emergency and well as a woman and a mother that's. so great. we need the lottery because we need it

we needed a bigger voice a great a voice in the country and there is no. voice as the president himself so when we had to declare recession as we've been we send troops and we embrace he's declared mission because that is what we needed force to be able. to actually change people that do with this. crazy thing in this country. well some will see better than never but still why has it taken this long for reef to be declared a national emergency considering that it's been a major problem for you very long time now. well my husband has only been the president of the republic last ten months or so in the last ten months myself of gone out and campaign against it and been. a public person who have stood up and let the nation know this is something that the

government is not going to accept and not count and so now the president had to say it is time this is the right time for you to come out and people know he's not going to be accepting any of this nonsense on the he's on leadership us to president of discounting last year the number of sexual relieved to the violence more or less doubled to about nine thousand cases but you and other women's activists believe that the number is even. should be more and so you believe that many people do not come out to reports these cases what is being done to do with a culture of not reporting cases so many more people can report it. well the fact is before now when people report rape most times stigmatization definitely it will affect them in the future it just does nothing at the individual and then tell

your family so they best thing to do is to just not see anything about it and just keep it on that and the victim will just be victimized and you know the truth will cause courts free because they know that it will be too shameful for the victim to come out and say i've been great and nothing will come out of it anyway but now that the country knows that the president himself is back in the victims and myself as the force navy i'm working towards that is on that might as if you know if you've been following that's why i had lunch to himself campaign in december hands of. rape is at the top of my it yet that really is one of the things that i believe we need to stop. the number of rape now people are more bald people come forward because they're not they have somebody been already has people who would support and you have to mean he starts agenda will he's working tirelessly to make sure any

rip victim that can forward will we do you will support you will support your campaign and we will support all your pieces to go it forward but before now that is what was lacking they don't have the supports they don't have anybody who will champion the cause is sore when they get to court. it's the old what against of the family thereto unfortunately the puppetry till is. bitter it'll knock people in high places that kids will just be washed washed and defective will be less justice as it is now if you if you if you do something like that i have promised this whole country if they catch us repeat. just know that you know your case it's not only would you seek to know it's meet all of us if the woman in this country would all come out and we. because you need to get up we definitely need to. thank you

very much mrs deal for your time we know you're very busy so thank you very much appreciate your time thank you to kenya now where on friday the high court will rule on whether or not to decriminalize gay sex it is currently punishable by law and one could serve up to fourteen years in prison if found guilty activists are hoping to win this case i think it's a really it would be a monumental. point for us i think that and it's a decision that would have a ripple effect across the region because it would be the first country in isto and central africa to successfully determine lies homosexuality that is if the so-called repeal one sixteen petition is successful on friday so how important will that be for the l g b t i q community our correspondent melanie crew at the bow met

with mary moody who is still in office in society where you peeling the law could change everything. this goes. by. so why would someone just because i used to love you frank. if it won for marion with three scarves she would have a hard time guessing what she's been through mary identifies with lesbian that is why has that father cost her out into the street when she was still a child that is why she was attacked by a group of men as a teenager and infected with hiv b. . it took. me all of about. and then after i. saw the bible to pull of my own.

thank you. both and then even killed most of those because they are. just a local. and i'm so thankful group who made clothes so when twenty years ago. the mom. has something. to give me. some christopher has given mary strength and pacing prejudiced and along with it criminalizes mary's very identity. in kenya it's not illegal to be gay but it is against the law to act on it in practice this means that in so many cases like that of mary as you would see i.q. couples have had their relationships repressed by the state and given the widespread disapproval of homosexuality that face constant discrimination and the threat of violence in their community. asian men did. we did. because

they're bringing evil on the world. not other moms. it's not accepted. we can't do that and have never learned with that use of behavior be creative themselves although they are born like i don't know i see it is i'm not in this court. because i'm still a teen she's encountered hasn't broken marriage spirit. i'm i need that this. more and you need. to because all that different in there's a make me there is a what you want everybody will love girls love love i don't know what these hold would hold dear. mary hopes that soon she would have to feel imprisoned for loving women and that one day in kenya she might be able to marry the woman. i am the mum mum.

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