{"id":9184,"date":"2018-06-22T08:24:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T08:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=9184"},"modified":"2018-06-22T15:21:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:21:13","slug":"child-rights-watchdog-deplores-increasing-ill-treatment-of-school-girls-in-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/child-rights-watchdog-deplores-increasing-ill-treatment-of-school-girls-in-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Rights Watchdog deplores increasing ill-treatment of school girls in Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferdinand Simbaruhije, Secretary General of the national federation of associations advocating children\u2019s rights in Burundi-FENADEB says the ill-treatment of young school girls is increasing day by day in the country.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9186\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9186\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9186\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ferdinand-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Ferdinand Simbaruhije: \u201cIt is a kind of sexual corruption observed in different schools\u201d\" width=\"458\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ferdinand-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ferdinand-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ferdinand-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ferdinand.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ferdinand Simbaruhije: \u201cIt is a kind of sexual corruption observed in different schools\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He refers to the recent case of a school girl who was seriously wounded with a machete on Nyamiyaga hill, in Butaganzwa Commune of Ruyigi Province. Beoline, 20, had responded to the call of Apollinaire Niyorugira, a teacher at Musenga fundamental school, to join him in a banana plantation, around 8:00 p.m., on June 20. Suddenly, Niyorugira stabbed her on the head, neck and arms.<\/p>\n<p>The victim is now receiving treatment at hospital. According to local sources, the young lady was pregnant and would wish to denounce how the teacher abused her. The local prosecution in Ruyigi arrested the alleged offender on June 20.<\/p>\n<p>Simbaruhije says similar cases are reported in different schools. \u201cNot only teachers abuse their students but also their supervisors,\u201d he says adding that the same case happened in Gitega Province when a teacher failed to kill his student after getting her pregnant. In Bisoro Commune of Mwaro province, he says, four young girls were dismissed from school because they were pregnant. \u201cIt is a kind of sexual corruption observed in different schools\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>FENADEB Secretary General says such cases of abuse are due to the loss of cultural identity. \u201cTeachers and students don\u2019t respect each other,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>He urges the ministry of Education to conduct a survey in schools to be aware of the current situation as to the mistreatment observed. \u201cFigures would help different organizations set up mechanisms to prevent this bad behavior\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Contacted, Edouard Juma, Spokesman for the Ministry of Education says such cases are a matter of the Ministries of Public Security and Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferdinand Simbaruhije, Secretary General of the national federation of associations advocating children\u2019s rights in Burundi-FENADEB says the ill-treatment of young school girls is increasing day by day in the country. He refers to the recent case of a school girl who was seriously wounded with a machete on Nyamiyaga hill, in Butaganzwa Commune of Ruyigi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,670],"tags":[113,784],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9198,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions\/9198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}