A memorandum sent to Women Minister Susan Shabangu, signed by Sonke and a coalition of civil organisations, urging Minister Shabangu to implement a fully-funded National Strategic Plan for Gender-Based Violence, made headlines in Business Day last week.
Read the full press release here: Patriarchy Revisited
More than 35 organisations and thousands of South Africans participated in rallies around South Africa calling for a national strategic plan on gender-based violence (GBV) during #16Days of Activism against violence against women and children.
Civil society organisations involved in the GBV – national strategic plan campaign:
- Treatment Action Campaign
- Social Justice Coalition
- Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce
- Budget and Expenditure Monitoring Forum
- University of Pretoria
- Community Law Centre
- Gender Links
- Legal Resources Centre
- Médecins Sans Frontières
- Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
- NACOSA
- New World Foundation
- Section27
- Sisonke
- SlutWalk
- The TEARS Foundation
- Thohoyandou Victim Empowerment Programme (TVEP)
- Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre
- Black Sash
- MatrixMen
- Wits RHI
- Love 167
- Grassroots Soccer
- Centre for the Study of AIDS and Centre for Human Rights
- University of the Western Cape
- Ecumenical Service for Socio-Economic Transformation (ESSET)
- Greater Rape Intervention Programme (GRIP)
- People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA)
- Pietermaritzburg Agency for Community Social Action (PACSA)
- Project Empower
- Rape Crisis Centre – Port Elizabeth
