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In response to reports on the link between harmful traditional practices and sexual violence in South Africa, the CSVR’S Gender Unit convened a roundtable to identify the issues for policy makers and for ordinary women. Speakers included Sa’diyya Shaikh from the University of Cape Town, Xhanti Sigcawu representing CONTRALESA, Joyce Maluleke from the Department of Justice and Gloudien Spies from Pretoria University. This is a Report of a Roundtable held on 27 August, 2009.
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This article analyses the specific ways in which Latin American countries have judicialised
domestic violence over the last decade. In particular, it highlights the new definitions of
spousal abuse and procedures adopted in both criminal and non-criminal courts. The
region has seen two countervailing tendencies, the first to criminalise, through penal code
definitions and higher penalties, the second to divert this offence into legal arenas that
tend, either implicitly or explicitly, towards effective decriminalisation and downgrading of this form of social violence due to their emphasis on conciliation and transactional procedures. -
This campaign aims to empower young people to prevent them from becoming victims of harassment, bullying and violence when using the internet and cell phones. Additionally, we aim to help young people use these tools in affirmative ways to advocate for change on issues of concern to them. This campaign, therefore serves to address violence experienced in internet and cellular phones by raising awareness and disseminating information. This will be done through distribution of stickers, fact sheets, posters and outreach to schools, learners, parents and NGOs.
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Download this resourceful brochure with tips and information on how to deal with digital dangers. This brochure is aimed at teachers, parents and young people
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This campaign aims to empower young people to prevent them from becoming victims of violence or harassment when they use the internet and cell phones. Additionally, helping them use these| tools as ways to advocate for change on issues important to them. Through the "Keep your Chats Exactly That!" campaign, we seek to empower young people with
information on how to assert themselves when confronted with harassment. This campaign,
therefore serves to address violence experienced in internet and cellular phones by raising
awareness and disseminating information. This will be done through distribution of stickers, fact
sheets, posters and outreach to schools, learners, parents and NGOs. -
This letter is submitted on behalf of the Human Rights and Access to Justice Technical Task Team (TTT), a standing subcommittee of the Programme Implementation Committee (PIC) of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC). The TTT provides expert advice to PIC on the human rights and access to justice targets of the NSP.
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From the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) this document explains how to go about lodging a complain against police officers.
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This article explores the process of attrition, where domestic violence cases fail to make it through the criminal justice system and do not result in criminal conviction. The article draws on the hitherto most detailed study of such attrition in the UK.1 The research, carried out across the Northumbria Police Force area, explored the quantitative attrition of domestic violence cases, from reporting to the police to final court outcome, contextualising this via the experiences of individuals (mainly women) victimised by
domestic violence as well as the perspectives and practices of the police, prosecutors, the
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Over five hundred activists from across the country will gather at the Delmas Circuit Court in
Simelane, a former national Banyana Banyana soccer player, was tragically killed and her body discovered near a ditch in her Kwa-Thema home township on April 28 last year. Five men were initially arrested and one was released in October following over a dozen court hearings at the Springs Magistrate Court. Four men stand trial and will be asked to plead to the charges of robbery, murder and possibly rape.
Activists from a broad range of social structures, including the 777 Campaign to End Hate, the Treatment Action Campaign, the African National Congress from Kwa-Thema and Delmas, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) network – the Joint Working Group – will be among the hundreds demonstrating outside the court and following the proceedings.
This case is only one of two cases in the country that has reached trial into a brutal murder of a black lesbian from a township, following the Zoliswa Nkonyana’s case that began in December 2008 at the Khayelitsha Magistrate Court, despite over 30 known cases across South Africa that involve rape, assault and even murder of LGBTI people. Activists have been raising their voices against hate crimes targeting particularly black lesbians and calling for measures to recognize and stop this growing spate against yet another vulnerable group in society.
This case is expected to ensure justice for Simelane and all the other LGBTI people whose cases never reached a court room.
For further information you can contact:
Lesbian and Gay Equality Project Family of Eudy Simelane
072 795 9194 073 888 1514
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Media Monitoring Africa is providing truly independent monitoring of the 2009 South African elections, providing daily reports on media coverage of election news, weekly reports as well as MMA’s Election Media Ratings.
