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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.

Re a Blogga / Blog-a-thon!

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Women’sNet invites you to participate in the Blog-a-Thon initiative that will be taking place during the whole course of the 16 Days of Activism.  This activity is line with the "Take Back the Tech" campaign which aims to use technology as a tool to combat violence against women (VAW). (see http://www.takebackthetech.net/)

Re a Blogga / Blog-a-thon! (16 Days non-stop blogging):

"Re a Blogga" is the name of our Blog-a-Thon.  The aim of blogging is to get people to speak out and write about gender injustices they witness or experience daily. This activity is a collective effort that will enhance the efforts to raise awareness on gender injustice.

Women'sNet is passionate about sharing information and creating safe space for expression and creation of information. For the duration of 16 days of activism we would like to encourage you to sign up and blog about issues and scenarios that we will be sending out to our list serve.

What you need to do:
On Women'sNet website, under user login, top right, click on 'create a new account', follow instructions there. This is free, and won't take more than 5 minutes. Then you can start blogging and making comments on news items and other people's blogs. Women'sNet will send out scenarios to prompt discussions. These will also be posted on our website and we encourage you to respond to them by blogging. See today's theme here.

What is a blog?

  • A blog is a personal diary
  • A daily pulpit. 
  • A collaborative space. 
  • A political soapbox
  • A breaking-news outlet
  • A collection of links
  • Mostly, your own private thoughts and memos to the world.

The aim of the Blogathon is to change the perspective of blogging from a strictly journalistic medium to a medium of self expression defined by free talk, which would incorporate many more people into blogging communities.

UNIFEM: Say NO to Violence Against Women

Launched in November 2007, the initiative was designed to feed into UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's campaign the Unite to End Violence against Women. It has since served as a platform for hundreds of thousands of concerned people to add their names to a global call to action, demanding that the issue be made a top priority globally.

Joining the Say NO campaign will signal support to the efforts of the Secretary-General and the targeted outcomes for this campaign, namely:-

Campaign location: 
Global
Contact Person Name: 
UNIFEM South Africa
Contact Phone Number: 
(2711) 517 1579
Email: 
abgail.ncube@unifem.org
Campaign website URL: 
http://www.sayNOtoviolence.org

Regulations under the Domestic Violence Act 116 of 1998

Submitted by sally_jean.shac... on Mon, 14/07/2008 - 14:14
Publisher: 
Department of Justice, South Africa
Publisher / Organization Main page URL: 
http://www.justice.gov.za/
Author: 
Department of Justice, South Africa
Published Date: 
1999
Abstract: 
This document sets out the regulations that pertain to the Domestic Violence Act 116, passed into law in december 1998. The regulations set out the roles of those responsible for implementing the Act, and include forms relating to the Act.
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Regulations under the Domestic Violence Act 116 of 1998

The Domestic Violence Act 116 of 1998

Submitted by sally_jean.shac... on Mon, 14/07/2008 - 14:08
Publisher: 
Republic of South Africa Government Gazette
Publisher / Organization Main page URL: 
http://www.info.gov.za/gazette/acts/1998/a116-98.pdf
Author: 
South African Government
Published Date: 
1998
Abstract: 
The Domestic Violence Act provides for the issuing of Protection Orders with regard to domestic violence.
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Government Gazette Vol 402 No.19537

Going somewhere slowly? A comparison of the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act (no. 116 of 1998)

Submitted by sally_jean.shac... on Mon, 14/07/2008 - 14:02
Publisher: 
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)
Publisher / Organization Main page URL: 
http://www.csvr.org.za/
Author: 
Vetten, L. & Schneider, V
Published Date: 
2006
Abstract: 
This study aimed to monitor similarities and differences in the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act (DVA) (no. 116 of 1998) in two different geographical settings in Gauteng, South Africa (Alberton and Temba court), and to compare these findings with data from the previous Prevention of Family Violence Act (PFVA) (no 133 of 1993).
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Going somewhere slowly? A comparison of the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act (no. 116 of 1998)

Waiting Opportunities: Adolescent Girls' Experiences of Gender-based Violence at Schools

Submitted by sally_jean.shac... on Mon, 14/07/2008 - 13:58
Publisher: 
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)
Publisher / Organization Main page URL: 
http://www.csvr.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=253
Author: 
Sadiyya Haffejee
Published Date: 
2006
Abstract: 
This study - conducted with adolescent girls between the ages 13 - 17 - suggests that efforts to address gender based violence against girls are not a priority. Findings from 17 focus group discussions with adolescent girls at nine Gauteng schools suggest that minimal to no intervention efforts are underway at schools or in communities; participants appeared frustrated and despondent at the lack of services available to them. This lack of services is startling in light of findings from this study which highlights a disturbing prevalence of sexual harassment at school as well as an alarmingly high incidence of physical and sexual violence in the lives of adolescent girls.
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Waiting Opportunities: Adolescent Girls' Experiences of Gender-based Violence at Schools

"Marriage is Like Sitting on Red Coals": A case study of domestic violence in four villages Moretele District, Tshwane Metropole

Submitted by sally_jean.shac... on Mon, 14/07/2008 - 13:51
Publisher: 
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)
Publisher / Organization Main page URL: 
http://www.csvr.org.za/
Author: 
Hargreaves, S., Vetten, L., Schneider, V., Malepe, L. & Fuller, R.
Published Date: 
2006
Abstract: 
While some studies have investigated aspects of the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act (DVA), there has been little documented exploration of the interaction between culture and tradition and women's recourse to the DVA. Certainly there are studies examining community perceptions of domestic violence but these have not explored how relationship status also mediates the nature of assistance available to women seeking help with domestic violence. These are important key omissions, that this study attempts to address. It explores how, in one district, men and women are embedded in a range of community beliefs and practices that shape not only responses to domestic violence, but also the nature of assistance provided. This context not only affects when, how and which women use the Act, but also highlights how a variety of institutions mediate women's access to the criminal justice system.
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"Marriage is Like Sitting on Red Coals": A case study of domestic violence in four villages Moretele District, Tshwane Metropole

Violence and Abuse in the Lives of Women and Girls Incarcerated in Three Gauteng Women's Prisons

Submitted by sally_jean.shac... on Mon, 14/07/2008 - 13:43
Publisher: 
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)
Publisher / Organization Main page URL: 
http://www.csvr.org.za
Author: 
Haffejee, S., Vetten, L. & Greyling, M
Published Date: 
2006
Abstract: 
Do women's previous experiences of violence or abuse play a role in their unlawful acts? What conditions exist in women's prisons, and do incarcerated women's experiences of violence create violent women's prisons? This research brief presents findings from a study conducted in three women's prisons in Gauteng, South Africa, exploring these two questions. It briefly describes the nature and extent of violence experienced by women and girls in conflict with the law, both prior to as well as during incarceration; and the relationship between such experiences of violence and the commission of unlawful acts. Both sets of questions are important for the prevention of women's offending, as well as the informed sentencing and management of female offenders.
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Violence and Abuse in the Lives of Women and Girls Incarcerated in Three Gauteng Women's Prisons

Raped by the System

Submitted by sally_jean.shac... on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 13:02
Publisher: 
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)
Publisher / Organization Main page URL: 
http://www.csvr.org.za/
Author: 
CSVR
Published Date: 
2008
Abstract: 
"I used to see it in prison. Others were raped, but it never happened to me," said a convicted fraudster who spent seven years in jail, most of them at Cape Town's notorious Pollsmoor Prison. His claim about his own treatment is improbable. Experts and ex-prisoners say the young, the good-looking, homosexuals, the weak and those convicted of white-collar or "sissy" crimes are most vulnerable to male rape in South Africa's prisons. Such is the secretive nature of male rape that survivors view it through the lens of denial and avoidance. And an ill-equipped criminal justice system remains unwilling to admit, let alone tackle, its pervasiveness.
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Raped by the system
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