Elsa Barber, who was speaking at the opening of a training session for more than 60 women child rights activists, admitted that the country has recently seen an increase in cases of violence against children.
Elsa Barber reported that between June and the current month, the SOS-Child Violence Reception Line, created in view of the increase in cases, received 42,067 reports of violence against children, of which 575 of sexual abuse.
These reports have already been forwarded to the authorities of the municipalities where they reside, says a note released this Tuesday.
The authorities, however, after receiving the reports, have already confirmed that this year the cases of violence against the child already exceed two thousand.
"To reverse the current picture, the secretary of state said that the executive has the support of all living forces, especially the churches, because they are the moral reserve of society," the document stresses.
The training was aimed at members of the Association of Women Intercessors of Angola, which the government considers indispensable partners in the fight against this phenomenon.
