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This module focuses on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). It offers definitions of SRHR, outlines the challenges of attaining them and provides faith-based case studies and practical tools to promote SRHR.
This module aims to offer information and debunk dangerous myths around sexuality and gender. It explains how gender and sexuality can be understood along a spectrum in an approach more reflective of the true nature of human experience.
The Gender and Equal Opportunity Bill has been rejected by Nigeria’s Senate owing to its incompatibility with existing customary laws.
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The Wits Institute for Diversity Studies (WICDS), the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), and Sonke Gender Justice are pleased to invite you to the Faith, Gender and Sexuality Toolkit Launch & Dialogue. The event will take place as follows: DATE: Monday, …
Jessica Elgot of The Guardian reports on shocking new statistics which reveal the global extent of female genital mutilation.
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Support Side by Side’s initiative to break down the structural barriers of gender inequality.
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South African Human Rights Commission drafts an amendment to the Children’s Act prohibiting corporal punishment in the home.
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The South African Human Rights Commission has instructed Cabinet to require the Department of Social Development (DSD) to, as soon as possible, bring South African law into line with various international human rights treaties which is has ratified and its …
Mbuyiselo Botha writes in the Sowetan on the worrying proliferation of churches that hide behind religion to exploit the poor.
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Gambian president Yahya Jammeh announced the ban on November 25th, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
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Religious doctrine shapes and informs decision-making at the individual and collective levels, and sexuality and gender rights advocates must therefore work with faith-based organisations and religious activists to challenge harmful and discriminatory sexuality and gender norms and practices. The Religion, …
Dean Peacock, Executive Director of Sonke, delivers a moving speech at the 15th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325.
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Sphelele Ngubane reports in The Mercury on how a female Bishop sparked an ecumenical debate.
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An in-depth cultural investigation at the intersection of tradition, gender, sexuality and identity.
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A session at Sonke’s short course serves to interrogate the role of religious dogma and institutions in gender transformation and identity.
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The South African Council of Churches Youth Forum and Sonke engage in a national conversation about sexual pleasure and faith.
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This report is based on a ground breaking workshop conceptualized by Sonke Gender Justice in partnership with the South African Council of Churches Youth Forum that brought together Muslim Scholars, Christian Youth Pastors, practitioners of African Traditional Religion and traditional …
Heartfelt words in response to the recent acts of racial violence that occurred in America.
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