{"id":12168,"date":"2019-03-29T08:13:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T08:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=12168"},"modified":"2019-03-29T12:36:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T12:36:22","slug":"measure-forbidding-girls-from-going-out-after-6-pm-being-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/measure-forbidding-girls-from-going-out-after-6-pm-being-extended\/","title":{"rendered":"Measure forbidding girls from going out after 6 pm being extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The administrator of Nyabiraba commune of Bujumbura Province issued on March 25 a statement forbidding girls from going out after six pm. Defenders of girls\u2019 rights protest this decision saying it\u2019s \u2018discriminatory\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12134\" style=\"width: 549px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12134\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12134\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ecole-buissonniere.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ecole-buissonniere.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ecole-buissonniere-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ecole-buissonniere-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ecole-buissonniere-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students playing hooky in Bujumbura<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Girls are not allowed to appear on the streets after 6 pm,&#8221; reads the statement issued on March 25 by Ferdinand Simbananiye, Administrator of Nyabiraba Commune.<br \/>\nThis decision was taken a week after the administrator of Giteranyi Commune in Muyinga Province in northeastern Burundi took a similar decision. Sources say that these measures aim at fighting pregnancies in school environment.<\/p>\n<p>Alice Nkunzimana, Coordinator in the Association for the Promotion of the Burundian Girl, describes this measure as discriminatory. &#8220;It threatens girls\u2019 freedom as it will prevent school girls from studying properly. Girls who will need to revise the courses with their classmates will be constrained by this measure,&#8221; says Nkunzimana, adding that girls may be arrested on the streets from shops or in search of firewood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know that there are girls who help their parents in household activities,&#8221; she says adding that \u201cthe measure will prevent girls from running business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Nkunzimana, banning girls from going out at night is not enough to protect them. She proposes the organization of sessions to discuss sexuality. &#8220;The administration in collaboration with parents should instead make girls aware of the bad consequences of getting pregnant while they are still students,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>This Coordinator in the Association for the Promotion of the Burundian Girl calls on justice to punish even those who impregnate them arguing that &#8220;A pregnant student is a victim of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The administrator of Nyabiraba commune of Bujumbura Province issued on March 25 a statement forbidding girls from going out after six pm. Defenders of girls\u2019 rights protest this decision saying it\u2019s \u2018discriminatory\u2019. &#8220;Girls are not allowed to appear on the streets after 6 pm,&#8221; reads the statement issued on March 25 by Ferdinand Simbananiye, Administrator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,670],"tags":[108,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12175,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12168\/revisions\/12175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}