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As a country South Africa continues to make efforts to address gender-based violence (GBV). This is done through numerous approaches and strategies including legislation, policy, and strategic leadership and mainstreaming gender into various components of its work. The government leads …
Sonke’s Executive Director, Dean Peacock, features in this video about the ‘Men, Peace & Security: Agents of Change’ symposium co-convened by Sonke, The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), The World Bank, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)-North America, Women in …
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We are very pleased to announce the release of a 12-minute video highlighting the main takeaways from “The Missing Peace: Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings” symposium which Sonke co-hosted in Washington DC late last year together with Promundo, …
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Around the world today, women will be celebrated. But celebration is not enough. Women must also be respected, and their rights protected. In South Africa, an estimated 1.5 million rapes occur every year, most unreported. On International Women’s Day, we …
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As African civil society organisations whose members live and work to improve the lives of all Africans, we condemn in the strongest terms, the disturbing increase in sexuality and gender-related rights violations and abuses, especially those aimed at women and …
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The 2013 Global Gender Gap Report reveals that gender gaps across the globe are slowly starting to close. Although international and regional gender equality instruments are helping to close these gaps, many parts of the world, including Southern Africa are …
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By the end of the first week of the trial in which Oscar Pistorius is charged with murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, around 21 South African women will have been killed at the hands of their boyfriends and husbands. It …
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Sonke Gender Justice reminds the media to respect ethics in Oscar Pistorius trial and not to ignore other cases of intimate partner homicide. By the end of the first week of the trial in which Oscar Pistorius is charged with …
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Sonke Gender Justice is pleased to announce that beginning March 1, Vuyiseka Dubula joins Sonke as head of the Policy Development and Advocacy Programme. In this portfolio, she will oversee Sonke’s work with the Commission for Gender Equality, the National …
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The Mail & Guardian ran a piece on Valentine’s Day, by Sonke’s Czerina Patel, Dean Peacock and Patrick Godana, exhorting South Africans to remember that all sectors in society need to act to stop gender-based violence. Click the link to …
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Sonke’s OPED in the M&G online on what we each can do to prevent another Reeva Steenkamp or Anene Booysen: Read the full article in the Mail & Guardian
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In his most recent blog post, Teaching Men and Boys to Understand How Some Performances of Masculinity Compromise Lives, Sonke’s Board Chair Professor Kopano Ratele argues that “as a society we find it difficult to hold the seemingly incompatible ideas that …
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Sonke Gender Justice joins South Africa in the outrage and sadness felt at hearing that a 9-year old girl was raped and set on fire in Delft in the Western Cape. This time last year, the country and the world …
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An op-ed by Sonke’s Mbuyiselo Botha, Dean Peacock and Czerina Patel has been published by South Africa’s Mail & Guardian newspaper. The authors argue that the government must stop paying mere lip service to rooting out gender-based violence. Click the …
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Sonke has published a press release following the rape of a 9-year-old girl in Delft, calling on the Gender-Based Violence Council to follow through on its commitments. » Download the press release
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Sonke’s Board Chair Professor Kopano Ratele and Media Liaison Mbuyiselo Botha published in the Open Society Foundation Journal Buwa reflecting on their work as gender equality activists. » Read the article
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Sonke Gender Justice’s January 16th 2014 submission on the Women Empowerment and Gender Equality Bill. Sonke calls attention to 1) the lack of adequate consultation in the development of the bill, 2) WEGE’s duplication of provisions and powers in other …
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New Delhi, 10 January, 2014: Global efforts to attain gender equality will remain unfulfilled unless men and boys become more fully engaged in the process, is one of the key messages emerging from a major international conference being held in …
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