Source: Times of Zambia
ZAMBIA Police Service Victim Support Unit (VSU) national coordinator Tresford Kasale has said Gender-Based-Violence (GBV) cases in the country have continued to rise.
Mr Kasale said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that GBV cases were on the upswing in the country, mostly in high density areas.

He said in the first quarter of 2011, the VSU recorded 2,028 GBV cases, 12 of them murder cases involving spouses, while 64 were rape cases and 452 child defilement crimes.
More than 650 were spouse abuse cases involving assault occasioning actual bodily harm (OABH), while the rest were minor cases.
Mr Kasale said the VSU had extended operations to community police posts in all townships in Lusaka, Copperbelt, and other highly-populated provinces.
" We are also engaging men and boys as agents of change, as you are well aware that they are the major perpetrators of Gender- Based Violence," he said.
He explained that to sensitise men and boys on GBV, the VSU had been holding 'campfires' to talk to the male folk.

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