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South African ministries fail to collate a truly representative contribution for the Beijing Platform’s review.
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The problem of gender inequality and gender-based violence (GBV) cuts across class, religion, geographical location, race and ethnicity. All over the world, there are numerous campaigns, projects and programmes that strive to bring about gender justice and human rights in …
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Sonke Gender Justice is in the process of closing out the tri-nation United Nations Trust Fund (UNTF) project that has put funds towards ending gender-based violence (GBV) in Rwanda, Kenya and Sierra Leone. The team started out in Rwanda on …
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Sonke laments the presidency’s failure to adopt and commit to an effective National Strategic Plan to combat GBV.
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Sonke’s Executive Director, Dean Peacock, discusses some of the issues around gender and gender-based violence that Sonke tackle’s every day, how Sonke works, its impact on communities, and our urgent calls for a fully-funded National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence …
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The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were established in the year 2000, aimed to improve the life for the world’s poorest and the most vulnerable by the year 2015. The MDGs have been a milestone in global and national development …
Civil society organisations march to Parliament to demand government to draft and implement a robust plan on dealing with GBV.
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The International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) — created and coordinated by Promundo and the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) — is one of the most comprehensive studies ever on men’s practices and attitudes as they relate …
Sonke points out why the illegality of sex work does more harm than good.
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On the last day of the global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence and Violence Against Children campaign, Sonke’s Co-founder and Senior Programmes Specialist, Bafana Khumalo will be recognised alongside the Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, …
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On a new kind of fatherhood that has gender equality and a good relationship between the parents as cornerstones.
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December 10th is International Human Rights Day and the last day of 16 Days of Activism – Join us for a picket to deliver “Messages to the Minister”! We are handing over the messages of South Africans who are tired …
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Sonke’s Mbuyiselo Botha will be a panellist in City Press and CNBC Africa’s “Winning Women” seminar. The discussion will focus on the role of men in ending gender-based violence. The seminar will air on CNBC Africa (Channel 410 on DSTV) …
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Gender-based violence can be tackled at its roots by fathers taking an active role in caring for their children, writes Sonke’s Wessel van den Berg in the Mail & Guardian today.
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Sonke’s Katie Bolbach writes about South African civil society’s campaign to implement a national plan to combat gender-based violence in Saferspaces: http://www.saferspaces.org.za/…/civil-society-demands-natio… #GBV #NSPNOW #16DAYS #GBVPLAN Sign petition: tinyurl.com/gbvplan The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa
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Sonke joins the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) and 20 other U.S. and international organizations at a rally at the White House in Washington D.C. to stand with women and girls raped in conflict at 12:30 p.m. (EST) …
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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 …
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Photos from Sonke intern Seda Tan capture our colleagues doing our part to march and call for the national plan on #GBV
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