Theme: Firearms

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Johannesburg, 04 July 2023 – Sonke Gender Justice is gravely concerned by the rampant use and abuse of guns by South African law enforcement officials. This follows the surfacing of a video of the South African Police Service’s VIP Protection …

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Invitation to training course on how to use the law to remove potentially dangerous weapons from homes.

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Reports of fraudulent gun licences indicate the ease with which illegal firearms can be ‘legally’ acquired and owned.

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Sonke, Gun Free South Africa and the Institute for Security Studies launch a joint campaign to eradicate intimate femicide.

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Discussing the potential dangers of American and South African societies’ deeply ingrained ideas of masculinity.

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Sonke and partners aim to make South African women aware of their right to get firearms confiscated from abusive partners.

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A national study found that more women (57%) were murdered by their husbands or boyfriends (called intimate femicide) than by strangers or criminals. Firearms, which are often said to be brought into the home to protect loved ones, played a major …

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Evidence from armed conflict settings points to high levels of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Current knowledge on how to prevent IPV is limited – especially within war-affected settings. To inform prevention programming on gender-based violence in settings affected by …

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This chapter explores South Africa’s dilemma, namely that its incremental progress and growth are undermined by ongoing and systemic armed violence and inequality. It applies the emerging optic of armed violence prevention, which focuses on understanding and addressing the contributing …

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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: …

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A growing global effort to collect information on gun violence that is broken down into age, ethnicity, and sex is helping challenge some over-generalisations that hinder more refined understanding of the impacts of small arms misuse. These include statements like …