Students join silent protest to fight GBV
During the protest, students will share their challenges, experiences and concerns around GBV.
IN a bid to fight gender-based-violence (GBV), the HIV/AIDS Centre, which is based in the Department of Student Counselling and Health at the Durban University of Technology (DUT), will be hosting the Annual Silent Protest on Wednesday, August 11 from 14:00 to 15:30.
During the protest, students will share their challenges, experiences and concerns around GBV. The three-part series of GBV webinars are entitled: Voices of Persons Living with Disabilities around GBV, “Men are Thrash” Are you? and Conversation for Women by Women.
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Silent Protest 2021 Task Team member, Siphesihle Ngubo said webinars held recently had set the tone for the Annual Silent Protest.
“In the spirit of embracing diversity and leaving no one behind at DUT, this year’s Silent Protest will feature one guest, who will share the challenges faced by the LGBTI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex) community,” she said.
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“It is a fact that in all advocacies around social ills, the LGBTI community is constantly left behind and at DUT, we have a number of students who identify as LGBTI and therefore, we will highlight the plight of inequality of the LGBTI community,” added Ngubo.
For more information, email duthivandaidscentre@gmail.com.
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