The conference that launched it was chaired by the Minister of Women, Family and Social Cohesion, who drew attention to the need to raise awareness on the urgent need to put an end to domestic violence and discrimination against women.

The president and executive secretary of the National Network against Gender Based Violence (RENLUV), Aissatu Injai, said in turn that it is time that parents and guardians reverse the strategy of educating, ie "should start printing the concepts of equity and gender equality in the minds of their children, "and reported that from January to this part, RENLUV recorded 311 cases of complaints of violence, 265 of which were committed against women.

The report, "A Portrait of violence against women in Guinea-Bissau", 2011, notes that "most of the identified practices related to the physical, psychological, sexual and economic violence against women, have their origin, above all, the woman's family and the wedding. " The majority if direct perpetrators, the report said, are the husbands, boyfriends or partners, or even parents, extended family and her husband's family, according to age.

The report shows on the other hand that between 2006 and 2010, more than 23,000 complaints of violence were registered across the country, in which the victims were always women.

In 2014 Guinea-Bissau passed a law criminalizing domestic violence. Law No. 6/2014, of February 4, states that "domestic violence is an attack on the right to life, safety, freedom, dignity and physical and psychological integrity of the human person, translating It is an obstacle to developing a solidarity and democratic society "and its Article 1 criminalizes all acts of violence within the household and family relations.

UN Women's coordinator in the country, Laetitia Kayisiré, explains that her agency’s program has supported the Government's commitment to implement the fight against violence on women and to implement international commitments.

"In Guinea-Bissau, the Women works with other UN bodies, especially UNIOGBIS, UNFPA, UNICEF and PUND to support the Government to implement its commitments in the fight against violence on women," he said. Laetitia Kayisiré said that, with the support of these agencies and UNIOGBIS, "the government approved in 2011 a law criminalizing excision, and another in 2014, against gender-based violence".

Mrs. Dionisia Gomes, Gender Program In charge within the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), said that this agency has in its mandate, to promote improvements in maternal health program, also integrating the component violence based on gender. "In the reproductive health program sponsored by UNFPA, is an integrated component gender-based violence which includes the training of medical and paramedical personnel to prevent and address cases of violence based on gender and that there is, at the community level, networks prevention, protection and assistance to victims of the phenomenon, "he said.

"Violence against women is a reality in Guinea-Bissau that women feel on their skin, including the violation of their rights and in enjoying equal opportunity with men," said Caterina Gomes Viegas, Official Section Gender of UNIOGBIS .

This worldwide campaign began in 1991 and was an initiative of the Center for Global Leadership of Women. More than more than 5,478 organizations, policy makers, governments, UN agencies and individuals from more than 180 countries participated in the campaign.