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The shrinking space for women’s voices at the UN has been an issue for a long time. In order to guide the UN away from a slippery slope and back to its Charter, the Women’s International League for Peace and …
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Over the years, the government of Uganda and other development partners encouraged the formation of women’s groups, called Women in Economic Empowerment (WEE) groups, in order to ease access to financial support, as one way of increasing household income and …
Helping attendees at the 10th Annual Conference on Women’s Rights understand the role of men and boys in eliminating FGM.
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Conference co-organised by Pan African Parliament, MenEngage Africa, Sonke and the UNFPA aims to accelerate the fight against FGM across Africa.
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Remarks by UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, for the inaugural Annual Sonke Lecture at Johannesburg.
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One in three women is bound to experience violence at least once in her lifetime. A statistic that is so overwhelming that we – as a collective – are committed to changing.
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Outlining the necessity of the Five Days of Violence Prevention Conference.
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We urgently need to employ the multiple strategies of evidence, action and accountability, writes Bafana Khumalo.
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Sonke and partners will be hosting the second “Five Days of Violence Prevention” conference this October in Newtown, Johannesburg.
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Over the past 10 years, the evidence base on the effectiveness of programs focused on changing social norms to achieve gender equality has grown. A number of approaches and methodologies demonstrate significant impact in preventing violence against women and girls …
We investigated the prevalence, patterns of the use of intimate partner violence, gender attitudes and associated factors among a cohort of men enrolled in the Sonke CHANGE trial, in an informal settlement north of Johannesburg.
In the early hours of the morning on 6 August 2017, Mr Manana, by his own admission, physically assaulted Ms Mandisa Duma and at least one other person at a nightclub in Fourways, Johannesburg. Ms Duma subsequently laid criminal charges …
As part of this project, ABAAD succeeded in holding seven national dialogue sessions between 10 feminist organisations and six religious leaders, representing various religions and sects in Lebanon, to discuss common ground in ending VAW. The goal of these sessions …
In Jakarta, Rutgers WPF Indonesia collaborated with the National Indonesian Police. A total of 75 participants from three training cohorts from different provinces in Indonesia took part. The themes of the trainings included: sex and gender; masculinity; GBV; stages of …
“Not any of the protective psychological barriers that I usually put up to help me believe ‘It won’t happen to me’ worked this time around.”
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In 2013, NORAD approved a grant in the amount of NOK 6.1 million, which was supported by a follow up grant of NOK 3 million in 2015, for the period April 1 to December 31, 2015, and subsequently extended to …
As South Africans reflect on and pay tribute to the achievement and power of women on Women’s Day 2017, Sonke Gender Justice considers what it would take to create a gender equitable world free of gender-based violence. On this day, …
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