Sonke Gender Justice

Video Type: TEDx

  • A warrior’s cry against child marriage | Memory Banda | TED Talks

    A warrior’s cry against child marriage | Memory Banda | TED Talks

    Banda is a tireless leader for girls’ rights around the world. She is leading Malawi’s fight to end child marriage‬ through her work with Let Girls Lead and the Girl Empowerment Network of Malawi.

    Only 18-years-old, Banda championed a successful national campaign that culminated in landmark legislation that outlawed child marriage. Banda works with girl leaders to ensure that village chiefs ban child marriage, end sexual initiation practices, enable girls to finish school and live safe from violence in a country where more than half of girls are married as children.

    She became an advocate for girls after her younger sister was forced into marriage at the age of 11. She is now a college student in Malawi.

    Her life took a divergent path from her sister’s. When her sister reached puberty, she was sent to a traditional “initiation camp” that teaches girls “how to sexually please a man.” She got pregnant there – at age 11.

    Banda, however, refused to go. Instead, she organised others and asked her community’s leader to issue a bylaw that no girl should be forced to marry before turning 18. She pushed on to the national level… with incredible results for girls across Malawi.

  • Jimmy Carter: Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse

    Jimmy Carter: Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse

    With his signature resolve, former US president Jimmy Carter dives into three unexpected reasons why the mistreatment of women and girls continues in so many manifestations in so many parts of the world, both developed and developing. The final reason he gives? “In general, men don’t give a damn.”

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  • Mad at Mandela | Sisonke Msimang | TEDxSoweto

    Mad at Mandela | Sisonke Msimang | TEDxSoweto

    Writer, activist and opinion-maker Sisonke Msimang shares thoughts on how she finds herself wondering, given the number of recent violent and racist incidents that have taken place in South Africa, if Nelson Mandela’s chosen path of reconciliation and forgiveness over redistribution and justice was at all helpful.

    Sisonke Msimang is director of advocacy and accountability at Sonke Gender Justice and writes a column in South Africa’s Daily Maverick online newspaper. She is also one of thirteen select Aspen Institute New Voices fellows.

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  • Fathers in caregiving: Strengthening Relationships – Patrick Godana at TEDx

    Fathers in caregiving: Strengthening Relationships – Patrick Godana at TEDx

    This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Patrick Godana calls for the trend of absent fathers to come to an end in our lifetime. In his talk he shares some stories about educating and encouraging men to be active participants in lives of their children, even before they are born.

    Patrick was born to a working class family in Port Elizabeth, and had to leave the country in the early 80s only to return to be a political activist and be arrested, tortured and sentenced to 5 yers in Middledrift Central Prison where he completed his matric. Since his release he obtained a Bachelor of Theology from UWC, a Higher Diploma in Education from UPE and was ordained as a Lutheran priest in 2004.

    In 1998 Patrick co-developed the Men as Partners Programme in South Africa, educating men and boys on Gender and Sexual and Reproductive Health. He Joined Sonke Gender Justice in 2007, coordinating the One Man Can campaign, and co-leading the MenCare campaign. Currently Patrick fulfils the role as Government and Media Liaison Manager for Sonke, leading national campaigns to improve legislation and the justice system towards the emancipation of women in South Africa.

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  • Our struggle is not over: Vuyiseka Dubula at TEDxEuston

    Our struggle is not over: Vuyiseka Dubula at TEDxEuston

    Vuyiseka Dubula is South African and was elected General Secretary of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in 2008, in which she has been actively involved with since 2001. As a young woman she joined TAC after learning her HIV positive status. Founded in 1998, TAC advocates for increased access to treatment, care and support services for people living with HIV and campaigns to reduce new HIV infections. Since 1998, TAC has held government accountable for health care service delivery; campaigned against official AIDS denialism; challenged the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies to make treatment more affordable and cultivated community leadership on HIV and AIDS.

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  • Sonke’s Tim Shand at TEDxBarcelonaWomen

    Sonke’s Tim Shand at TEDxBarcelonaWomen

    Tim Shand is the Director of International Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Programmes for Sonke Gender Justice, a South African NGO working to engage men in preventing gender-based violence and sexually transmitted diseases. He talks about men’s responsibility in ending violence against women and contraception. He emphasizes that empowering women is good, but no real change can occur without explicitly engaging men in the struggle.

    In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.*

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  • TEDxGöteborg – Remmy Shawa

    TEDxGöteborg – Remmy Shawa

    Remmy has been working in the AIDS response since 2003. To date, he has worked with different local and international NGOs such as Students Partnership Worldwide where he volunteered for 8 months to work as a volunteer Peer Educator in 2004 in rural schools.

    In order to give back to his urban community, where he lives, he volunteered under the department of Psychology at the University of Zambia on a joint programme with the San Jose State University in California to work in Lusakas two urban poor communities, Ngombe and Chainda in 2006 and 2007 respectively. Here, he worked at community schools dealing with orphans and vulnerable children, standing as a role model to give them hope for a positive future.

    He has been awarded the Special Youth Programme Fellowship with UNAIDS in Geneva and Zambia for 5 and 4 months respectively, from June, 2009 to February, 2010.

    About TEDx, x = independently organize event. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.*

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