Social activist Graça Sanches defended the need to adapt the Gender-Based Violence Law (VBG) in response to the complexities and specificities facing the LGBTI community in Cabo Verde.
Graça Sanches made these statements Monday to reporters on the sidelines of her speech on the “diagnostic study on the social and legal situation of LGBTI people in Cabo Verde”, as part of the Citizenship and LGBTI Rights Seminar (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender and Intersex)”, held this Monday in the city of Praia.
This responsible stressed the importance of this study, which in her opinion will help in the materialization of public policies, confirming that Cabo Verde will have to outline the objectives in order to respond to the national and international commitments it has made and ratified.
“This study has a privileged character, because without the existence of the study we do not know the reality and the first cause for discrimination is ignorance. So it is important to specify some situations which essentially discriminate against the LGBTI community, that at the outset, without this study, we could not make the necessary advocacy for the implementation of these commitments,” she said.
Source: Inforpress