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As South Africa is commemorating Women’s Month, key findings from the Ichikowitz Family Foundation’s 2022 African Youth Survey indicate that a vast majority (81%) of young Africans across the continent voice strong concerns about ongoing gender-based violence and femicide. Concern was reported as the highest in Kenya (93%) and Zambia (91%) while 81% of South […]
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A familiar song produced in 1983 and taught in schools around the world as part of a sexual abuse prevention programme, has been given a reboot to raise funds to fight the second pandemic – women abuse in South Africa. ‘My body’ samples a song by educational psychologist Peter Alsop, and teaches themes such as consent and boundaries. The new […]
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As the coronavirus cuts a swathe through the entire world, leaving tens of thousands dead in its wake, many women in South Africa must endure a second virus for which there are minimal eradication efforts. Whereas the 21-day lockdown is a bold attempt to arrest the spread of the coronavirus, the period of isolation at […]
...It’s time to end sexual and gender-based violence once and for all, participants of a two-day conference said. In Norway, United Nations agencies, governments and civil society convened for the first-ever thematic humanitarian conference to combat sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in humanitarian crises. The conference, which brought together representatives from 100 nations and over […]
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