Zero tolerance to Gender-Based Violence.

1 in 3 women still experiences physical or sexual violence. Zimbabwean women have experienced some form of violence (psychological, emotional, economic, physical or sexual), perpetrated by an intimate partner with 26% cases of violence being recorded during 2011-2012. It was also noted that 13% of men in the country admit to perpetrating some form of violence against their intimate partners during the period of 2011-2012. Research has also pointed out that 69% of women have experienced violence while 41% of men admitted to be perpetrators of intimate partner violence (IPV) in their lifetime.

AWET is committed to reducing morbidity and mortality rate related to all forms of GBV in the Apostolic Sect.