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Sonke’s Sexual Reproductive Health Rights portfolio, mainstreams SRHR into all of the organisation’s work to ensure that women and men, girls and boys can access their rights to sexual and reproductive health education and services, including comprehensive sexuality education. The …
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The MenEngage Africa Sexual Rights Health and Rights(SRHR) Learning and Exchange Symposium which took place from the 21st to the 23rd of October in Johannesburg South Africa, was an important event that focused on the theme of “SRHR for All: …
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Sonke has noted allegations of one of its staff members who is alleged to have committed a sexual offence against a young woman in the Western Cape. Sonke Gender Justice views this matter in a serious light and has suspended …
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Sonke Gender Justice and Men Engage Africa participated at the Women Deliver 2023 conference which took place in Kigali, Rwanda in July. The conference gathered over six thousand, three hundred women’s rights advocates from around the world, to engage on …
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Sonke Gender Justice is outraged to learn that the South African National Defence Force soldiers on the MONUSCO peacekeeping mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo are involved in a scandal of alleged sexual abuse cases. The eight implicated soldiers …
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By Jude Thaddues Njikem, SRHR Specialist at Sonke Gender Justice
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13 July 2023 – Sonke Gender Justice applauds the European Court of Human Rights for ruling in favour of double Olympic champion Caster Semenya in a verdict, that she was discriminated against by the World Athletics rules, that forced her …
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Sonke Gender Justice is deeply saddened and outraged at the killings of six sex workers last weekend in central Johannesburg. The six decomposing bodies were discovered inside a panel beater’s shop by a security guard, after he noticed a strange …
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Sonke Gender Justice welcomes reports stating that the President of the United States, Joe Biden has repealed the “Global Gag Rule” (GGR), officially known as the Mexico City Policy. The Global Gag Rule, reintroduced by Donald Trump in 2017 prohibited …
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Introduction Sonke Gender Justice, with the support from CHANGE, commissioned a policy brief to explore the impact the Global Gag Rule, and COVID-19 on SRHR services in Africa. Owing to the compounded effects of the Global Gag Rule (GGR) and …
This Youth SRHR Strategy is aligned with the MenEngage Africa Strategic Plan 2019-2023. It has also been developed in line with the Maputo Plan of Action 2016-2030 for the Operationalisation of the Continental Policy Framework for Sexual and Reproductive Health …
Young men from the MenEngage network completed Friday in Kpalimé (about 120 km north of Lomé), two days of training in “comprehensive sex education and advocacy” for the taking of initiatives and actions in the field. Young people from other …
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Background The Programme of Action adopted by 184 UN member states in Cairo recognises the importance of human rights in protecting and promoting reproductive health. The Cairo Programme strongly endorses a new strategy for addressing population issues, focused on meeting …
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Limited, incomplete or incorrect knowledge and information related to sex, sexuality and sexual and reproductive health and rights among the youth contribute to gender-based violence, discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, HIV, teenage pregnancies and other adverse health outcomes. …
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“I used to live in a way that I did not know would negatively impact me and put my life at risk. I smoked marijuana every day with a group of young men in my village. We had a secret …
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On Friday, the 9th of August 2019, an article with the headline “Arrest pregnant under-age girls – MP, was published by the Times of Swaziland. The article reported that Member of Parliament (MP), Michael Masuku, stated that teenage pregnancy should …
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The USA’s ‘Global Gag Rule’, officially called ‘Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance’, was reinstated in 2017 when the Republican administration returned to office. This policy “prohibits US global health assistance from being provided to foreign nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) that …
Civil society organisations SECTION27 and Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke) are deeply concerned by the recent signing of the “Alabama Human Life Protection Act”, the most recent law in a wave of anti-abortion legislative measures made under the Trump administration. These …
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