Participants to the third annual Gender Justice and Local Government Summit kicked up their heels in traditional dances and sang songs during the gala's cultural diversity evening Monday night to reinforce the summit's theme "365 days of local action to end violence and empower women."
The Zambian delegation, through the Chewa Chinamwali dance, denounced the harmful cultural practice of wife inheritance, because it increases women's vulnerability to HIV and AIDS, as well as to mental and physical abuse.
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