Zimbabwe: Align Laws With Child Rights, Govt Urged

Children's organisations have called on the judiciary to impose stiffer penalties for perpetrators of child abuse in a petition handed over to Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development Minister Oppah Muchinguri yesterday.

The organisations called for multi-sectorial approach to cases of child sexual abuse with more than 1 000 signatures from children and child rights organisations.

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