Theme: Gender-Based Violence

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The One Man Can Campaign promotes the idea that each one of us has a role to play, that each one of us can create a better, more equitable and more just world. At the same time, the campaign encourages …

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The organisations below were shocked by media reports on the violent attacks suffered by the young women at the hands of taxi drivers at Noord Taxi Rank. The reports also highlighted the fact that witnesses and security guards did nothing …

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The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Amendment Act has been in effect since 16 December 2007 and affects the punishment of sexual crimes committed after this date. The Act replaces some common law provisions on sexual offences and some sections of …

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WHEREAS the commission of sexual offences in the Republic is of grave concern, as it has a particularly disadvantageous impact on vulnerable persons, the society as a whole and the economy; WHEREAS women and children, being particularly vulnerable, are more …

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Listen to the BBC World Service’s podcast on Sexual Violence in South Africa, by David Goldblatt or read the accompanying article on Tackling South Africa’s Rape Culture. >> listen to the podcast >> read the article

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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 …

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Countries around the world need to scale-up domestic violence prevention and make a concerted effort to measure violence-related deaths, injuries and health conditions, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). In Third Milestones of a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention …

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South Africa has failed to protect its women from violent crime and needs to jack up its approach to gender equality. The Sonke Gender Justice Network, a leading South African-based monitoring group made these scathing findings in a country report tabled at the …

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Sonke Gender Justice launches the South Africa Country Report entitled “Working with men and boys to achieve gender equality” for the 2007 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. At the 48th session of the Commission on the Status …

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This National Action Plan is a multi-sector framework and approach for ending gender violence over the period 2007-2009. The plan is in recognition that no single sector, government ministry, or civil society organisation is by itself responsible or has the …

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The South Africa Country Report to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, 2007 was prepared by Donald Ambe, Vanja Karth, Bafana Khumalo, Eleanor McNab, Dean Peacock, and Jean Redpath. The report was prepared by Sonke Gender Justice on …

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At the 48th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in 2004, the South Africa government and the governments of other participating countries made formal commitments to implementing a range of recommendations aimed at “involving men and …

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Read the Irin Plus article “Closing the gap: Gender-Based Violence in South Africa”.

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Executive Summary: From November 10-15, 2006 Sonke Gender Justice conducted a survey of 945 men in the greater Johannesburg area. Men were selected from diverse racial and ethnic groups in the same general proportion as these groups are represented in …

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From November 10-15, 2006 Sonke Gender Justice conducted a survey of 945 men in the greater Johannesburg area. Men were selected from diverse racial and ethnic groups in the same general proportion as these groups are represented in South Africa. …

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This focus examines the presentations of four panelists at the Gender, Culture and Rights workshop, whose papers spoke of men’s willingness to play a more active role in promoting gender equality and of the urgency with which interventions be conducted …

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This article presents lessons learned from the Men as Partners (MAP) Program in South Africa. MAP is an ongoing, multi-faceted intervention designed to engage men in reducing gender-based violence and to promote men’s constructive role in sexual and reproductive health, …