Customary courts should not handle GBV cases – activists

Customary courts should not handle GBV cases – activists

Human rights advocates are calling for gender-based violence (GBV) cases to be handled exclusively by statutory courts, rather than customary courts. Campaigners said that legal practitioners and traditional leaders frequently ignore the Penal Code and instead rely on customary practices, which vary significantly between communities and are often rooted in patriarchal traditions. They argued that suspects of gender-based violence should face pro…