CIVIL society organisations on Thursday delivered a petition to Vice-President Mutale Nalumango, calling for urgent reforms and stronger legal measures to curb the rising cases of gender-based violence (GBV) in Zambia. The petition, presented at the High Court Grounds, expressed frustration over what activists described as the slow review of the Anti-GBV Act No. 1 of 2011 and the persistent underfunding of programmes aimed at combating violence against women and children. Activists, who marched in Lusaka yesterday during the nationwide ‘Stop GBV Now’ peaceful protest, organised by NGOCC against defilement, rape and gender-based violence, are also calling for surgical castration of male convicts of these crimes as a proportional response to their crimes. The petition also proposes eliminating bail and...