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Sonke’s partner, Shukumisa is celebrating Judge Pierre Rabie’s January 15th ruling against sections 15 and 16 of the Sexual Offences Act. The ruling opens a way for teenagers to access reproductive healthcare services without fear of arrest. » Read more …
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Sonke’s interest in the Bill is linked to its mission to prevent gender-based violence (GBV) on the basis that we are of the view that alcohol consumption facilitates and exacerbates GBV. This submission explores the intersection between alcohol consumption and …
On Tuesday the 30th October, Sonke’s Cape Town prisons team organised an event at Goodwood Correctional Centre that brought together school learners and inmates to discuss issues facing the youth and HIV. Sonke staff and the Refugee Health and Rights …
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Published in The New Age – 3 Sept 2012 by Francis Hweshe Activist group Sonke Gender Justice has lashed out at “sugar daddies” amid attempts by a city school to contain learner pregnancies due to irresponsible sexual behaviour. Principal at …
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The figures of young boys dying at initiation schools are shocking. The death toll, as at July 11, was 42, in just three weeks. According to reports, this is nearly double last year’s figure of 26. Photo credit: The Guardian …
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Talk SA is airing a Male Role Models episode on Tuesday 31 July, featuring Ompile who nominated his father Philly in the My Dad Can Campaign. The show will also be encouraging viewers to vote for their role models in …
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The last few months have been an interesting period in the country. There are shocking reports of a collapsing health care system, particularly in the Eastern Cape where there’s a disturbingly high rate of teenage pregnancy. On the other hand, …
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During June each year, youth month, the youth of yesteryear is often lauded for its efforts, while the youth of today are criticized for lacking the will and drive to change their situation, circumstances and communities. The obstacles faced by …
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June is youth month, and across the country events have been taking place to celebrate, commemorate and honour the important youth activism of 1976. The youth debate, hosted by the Goodwood Correctional Centre on 19 June, was one of these. …
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In 1988, a teacher, Kevin Jennings, at a private school in Massachusetts, started a group to support Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) students and to connect supporters of inclusivity and broad sexual rights, whether straight, gay or other. …
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… put a smile on my face everyday … cook nice food for me and play with me … play ball with me … make me laugh, hug me and hold me … take care of me … help me …
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It’s only Wednesday, but the Refugee Health and Rights (RHR) team in Cape Town are looking a little worn out this afternoon – and with good reason. They have spent the day going from class to class at Maitland High …
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Helen Zille’s suggestion that men who have unprotected sex with younger girls should be charged with culpable homicide was rightfully condemned as nonsensical, populist and just bad public health. Zille’s recent comments about teenage pregnancy generated less controversy but, in …
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My Dad Can entries are still coming into the office and we are slowing but surely working our way through the large pile of forms which have already arrived. One that just jumped out at us yesterday was this one …
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The South African MenCare campaign was launched in early August at the Nike Football for Hope Centre in Soweto. MenCare – A Global Fatherhood Campaign – is coordinated by Instituto Promundo, based in Rio de Janeiro and Washington DC, Sonke …
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Sonke believes that firearm control laws should attempt to delink notions of manhood with firearm ownership, and promote norms that do not make firearm possession a sign of power and masculinity. Accordingly, this submission will focus on the following points: …
Sonke has just finalised an evaluation of the Red Card Campaign which was run between May and Dec 2010. The evaluation highlighted a number of internal and external challenges to the campaign, but generally backed up the campaign approach and …
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The “Red Card Campaign” (RCC) aimed to reduce children’s, and especially girls’, vulnerability to sexual exploitation during and after the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa by increasing awareness regarding sexual exploitation and increasing the ability and willingness of …
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