Community Health Clinic Model for Agency in Relationships and Safer Microbicide Adherence (CHARISMA)
Improving the agency of women to take charge of their sexual health, without fear of cultural resistance or violence from their partners.
Faith and Traditional Sector
Sonke’s initiative to strengthen the will and power of faith-based institutions to prevent and respond to sexual violence.
Silicosis and its Gendered Impact
Sonke and TAC’s campaign to win justice for the many miners who contracted preventable lung diseases owing to mining companies’ neglect.
Policy Development & Advocacy
South Africa has one of the world’s most progressive constitutions, which includes a justiciable Bill of Rights. However, our country is also home to some of the world’s highest rates of violence. Sexual violence, including domestic abuse, rape, assault and murder, are far too common. Similarly, there are a vast number of human rights violations […]
SRHR and Religious Communities
Interrogating the potential capacity of religious leaders and institutions to prevent and respond to gender-based violence and sexual rights violations.
Global SRHR Initiative
MenEngage’s international campaign to improve men’s usage of contraceptives and increase their awareness and understanding of HIV/AIDS.
Internal SRHR Working Group
Sonke’s internal initiative to train staff and strengthen collaboration across units for the mobilisation of SRHR projects.
Men and HIV Project
Regional campaign being implemented in Eastern and Southern Africa to address men’s low uptake of HIV services.
Gender Integration in Family Planning
Sonke partners with USAID missions across Sub-Saharan Africa to offer technical family planning assistance that accounts for the rights of women and children.
Challenging xenophobia through keeping leaders accountable for inciting hate
Examining the harmful influences of King Zwelithini’s address in Pongola in March 2015.
Decriminalisation of Sex Work
Sonke’s work to transform widespread negative perceptions of sex work and challenge societal stigma against sex workers.
Asijiki Fact Sheets
Sonke is a steering committee member of the Asijiki Coalition for the Decriminalisation of Sex Work. The Coalition advocates for sex worker human rights and the urgent reform of laws on sex work in South Africa. The following fact sheets have been compiled that reflect contemporary debates on sex work and current evidence on sex […]
Prisons Transformation – Policy Reform, Advocacy and Accountability
Sonke campaigns for government to be held accountable for the maintenance of prisons and the wellbeing of prisoners.
Public Transport and Gender-Based Violence
Civil society organisations actively monitor the services offered to victims of rape, ensuring that standards set by the Sexual Offences Act are met.
The UCLA Law – Sonke Health & Human Rights Fellowship
Sonke’s bursary, offered to any African law graduate or professional, to further their studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Stop the Traditional Courts Bill
Human rights organisations band together in opposition of a Bill that threatens the autonomy and wellbeing of all rural women.
Transformation of the Judiciary
Sonke’s efforts to bring about gender equality and strengthen Constitutional principles in South Africa’s legal system.
Commission for Gender Equality Monitoring Project
Human rights organisations formed the Commission for Gender Equality Monitor to ensure the CGE delivers on its transformative mandate.
Integrating Strategies to Engage Men and Boys through National Strategic Plans on HIV and AIDS (NSPs)
Sonke’s participation in global consultations that highlight the importance of implementing greater engagement with men and boys in NSPs on HIV/AIDS.
WEGE Bill Fails Women – Call for Wide Consultations
Calls for suggestions to improve the insufficient transformative power of the 2013 Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality Bill.
National Strategic Plan on HIV and AIDS
Sonke’s work highlights the importance of recognising the discrepancies between men and women’s engagement with ARV treatment in forming a new NSP on HIV/AIDS.
Stop Gender Violence: A National Campaign
Sonke calls for the South African government to develop a fully-costed, multisectoral, comprehensive national strategic plan to combat gender-based violence.
One Man Can
Sonke’s flagship campaign aims to positively influence men’s cultures and perceptions of gender norms to achieve a gender-equal society.
Community Education & Mobilisation
Widespread gender norms, which associate masculinity with strength and dominance encourage and permit the continuation of violence against women, children and LGBTI people in South Africa, and across the continent. These norms permeate all levels of society – families, schools, communities, workplaces and the justice system. Gender norms that permit violence also encourage men to […]
