Resources
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Busi Kheswa joins the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW) as a director during an exciting time when the organisation is plotting the way forward. She is driven by her love for her community and her commitment to protect the rights of the most marginalized. FEW is seeking for board members to work with Busi as the term for the current board is ending.
FEW's purpose is to ensure a world where black lesbian, bisexual and transgender women know, access and enjoy their right to autonomy, dignity and equality in all aspects of their lives, both in the private and the public domain.
The responsibilities of the board include setting policies for the organization and providing strategic direction for the organization, and exercising programmatic and financial oversight. The board has four regular meetings per annum.
The applicant should have an understanding of the black lesbian community and its needs and be willing to commit time for board meetings and board experience will be an advantage. To apply please fill in the attached form and send it to director [at] few [dot] org [dot] za or fax to (011) 339 1867, closing date 25 September 2009
Please circulate to friends, activists and comrades
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Busi Kheswa
Director
Forum for the Empowerment of Women
TEL: +27 11 339 1867/1882
FAX: +27 11 339 1871
URL: http://www.few.org.za
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The Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW) is a national, Non- Profit Organisation based in Johannesburg, South Africa, which aims to articulate, advance, protect, promote the rights of black lesbian, bisexual and transgender women (LBT). -
The first-ever World Health Organization (WHO) study on domestic violence reveals that intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence in women’s lives - much more so than assault or rape by strangers or acquaintances. The study reports on the enormous toll physical and sexual violence by husbands and partners has on the health and well-being of women around the world and the extent to which partner violence is still largely hidden.
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Recently, laws that specifically criminalize HIV transmission and exposure
have been enacted, or are pending, in parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. At the same time, particularly in Europe and North America, existing criminal laws are increasingly being used to prosecute people for transmitting HIV or exposing others to HIV. In addition to criminalizing the transmission of HIV, these laws sometimes call for mandatory HIV testing of pregnant women, as well as for non-consensual partner disclosure by healthcare providers; further exacerbating the impact of such legislation on women. -
The 2008 Report on the global AIDS epidemic reports on the latest developments in the global AIDS epidemic.
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This report looks at the funding patterns in relation to gender, of three major financing institutes, which are: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the World Bank and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
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This report is based on a study aimed to identify and assess the impact of government programmes concerned with the promotion of equity in all its dimensions over the past fifteen years within the context of specific socio-economic trends regarding women, children, people
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I had a problem with the laws and the police before. I was in the hotel where I was staying and found a client from the bar. We went upstairs to do business, and He didn’t want a condom so I refused to have sex with him so he started beating me, so badly. I knew him and his place. I went to the police to his place and found him, but the police didn’t arrest him because he told them I was a sex worker, so the cops took his side. He started threatening me but the cops didn’t say anything. That was when I started to move form that hotel to another one.
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This resource is a leaflet outlining the time line since Buyiswe laid a rape charge against her multiple assailants in October 2005. Print and distribute it to potential supporters, and use it in awareness raising on the criminal justice systems failure to act.
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This is a flyer for promoting protest action on the Buyisiwe Rape case. Download it, print it and pass it on.
