UNFPA Botswana has partnered with the BotswanaPost to launch a stamp entitled ‘Say No to Gender-Based Violence.’
BotswanaPost has 124 offices. Each envelope mail exchange will be part of the international mail exchange and will potentially reach one million people worldwide each month.
The campaign is to run for a year. It forms part of UNFPA’s efforts to support the UN SG’s UNITE to End Violence against Women Campaign.
Over two thirds of women in Botswana have experienced some form of gender-based violence (GBV) and 44 per cent of men admit to perpetrating it.
UNFPA Representative Aisha Camara-Drammeh welcomed the initiative. “The partnership with BotswanaPost to send messages on GBV nationally is timely, to ensure that both women and men are informed of the magnitude and types of violence against women and girls.”
