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How the AU is progressing towards making Africa’s Agenda 2063 a reality.
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Members from various faiths gathered together at Sonke’s workshop to discuss how religion can contribute to gender-based violence.
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Sonke and MenEngage Africa have released a tri-country baseline report entitled ‘Towards safety and equality for women and girls – A comparative study of gender-based violence in Kenya, Rwanda and Sierra Leone’. Historically, gender relations have always been grossly unequal, often …
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Participants of the five-day workshop – which was organised by Sonke Gender Justice, MenEngage Africa, the Institute of Development Studies and the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies – on “Religion, Gender and Sexuality”, share their views on the importance of …
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An article on a workshop organised by Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke), MenEngage Africa (MEA), the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WICDS) to question the role of religious texts in supporting gender and sexuality …
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Participants from all over Africa gathered to interrogate the power religion has to influence societal norms and mindsets.
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MenCare+: Engaging men in a 4-Country Initiative – is a three-year (2013-2015), four country collaboration between Rutgers WPF and Promundo-US, working with long-term national and regional partners. Girls’ and women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights are critically hindered by rigid …
Sonke’s MenCare Government and Media Relations Manager, Patrick Godana will be on Radio Zibonele today at 10:00am and again on Bush Radio at 13:00pm discussing ‘Intimate Femicide’ conceptualized to be the most extreme consequence of intimate partner violence. You can …
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Approximately 45 human rights defenders from local and regional Ugandan NGOs meet to share their insights with the UN.
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Central to the concept of gender are the notions of power, decision-making, control and ownership. Historically, gender relations have always been grossly unequal, often to the extent that women are reduced to second-class citizens or even harmed or killed on …
Almost 300 people, the majority of them men and boys, have turned up to attend a community public meeting held to promote the rights of women and children in Tarime district, Mara region. The meeting, which was held at Serengeti …
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Sonke, as part of the Hate Crimes Working Group SA, was proud to host over 60 people at the Bioscope in the Maboneng Precinct, Johannesburg, last night for the screening of Laura Fletcher’s award-winning documentary, ‘African Pride’. Winner of Best …
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Great article by Sonke’s board chair Kopano Ratele and Mbuyiselo Botha, Sonke’s media relations manager on the need to engage men and boys to address our endemic levels of violence. Our men and boys need help — and fast www.bdlive.co.za …
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How the violent trauma caused by the Apartheid system has manifested in violent anti-authoritarian behaviour in today’s young men.
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What does it say about our society that Floyd Mayweather is the highest paid athlete in the world?1 What does it say about our society that millions of people paid $100 each to watch Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao fight?1 Even …
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Sonke laments the fact that Mayweather – a man known to be violent against women – is such a well-supported sportsman.
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Sonke’s Mbuyiselo Botha on the lack of justice for survivors of violence, and the urgent need for violence prevention work with men. NGO: Men are literally getting away with murder m.news24.com Violence against SA women remains a problem because of …
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