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16 Days of Activism

Freedom Fone

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Participants at Freedom Fone Workshop

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Twitter drive #Fone4women

Published date: 
9 Nov 2011

Deadline: 08 December 2011

 

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Follow us @WomensnetSA on Twitter and retweet our tweets from November 09th to December 09th under the hashtag #Fone4women. Alternately, you can tweet your own message under the same hashtag #Fone4women. Tweet a message calling for cell-phone donations and create awareness around the importance of Information and Communication Technology (ICTs)rights and freedom.

16 Days of Activism

The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international campaign originating from the first Women's Global Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women's Global Leadership in 1991. Participants chose the dates, November 25, International Day Against Violence Against Women and December 10, International Human Rights Day, in order to symbolically link violence against women and human rights and to emphasize that such violence is a violation of human rights.

About the 16 Days of Activism Campaign

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Gender Machinery proposes Ministry for Women

Published date: 
4 Feb 2009
The National Gender Machinery (NGM) met in Pretoria two months ago to discuss the possibility of establishing a Ministry for Women and Gender Affairs to advance the empowerment of women.

US Govt Supports SA's Fight Against Women, Child Abuse

Published date: 
3 Apr 2009
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has supported the South African Government's programme focused on violence against women and children.

“Empowerment Can Save Women From Abuse”

Published date: 
19 Dec 2008
Humbelani Netshandama, a motivitional speaker from Limpopo encouraged rural women to empower themselves through different community and self-help projects.  Speaking at the University of Venda, Netshandama said this will assist in breaking the poverty cycle and will also ease unemployment. 

Should We Consent? Rape Law Reform in South Africa

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Wed, 10/12/2008 - 15:53
Publisher: 
Book S.A.
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http://news.book.co.za/
Author: 
Lillian Artz and Dee Smythe
Published Date: 
2008
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For more than a decade, South Africans have been advocating a reform of the country's laws on sexual offences. South Africa has one of the highest levels of reported rape in the world, and legislative reform was seen as an essential step towards shifting the understanding of rape and its treatment within the criminal justice system. Since 1996 the activism has focused on the South African Law Reform Commission's investigation into sexual offences, and the parliamentary process, which culminated at the end of 2007 in the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act.
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Should We Consent? Rape Law Reform in South Africa

Women’s Problem – Violence – Is Men’s Problem

Published date: 
4 Dec 2008
Nineteen years after the tragic deaths of 14 young women in Montreal, violence against women in Canada continues to be a significant and persistent social and economic reality.
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