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Banguera elected UN point person on sexual violence in conflict

Published date: 
10 Dec 2012

Former health minister from Sierrra Leone, Zainub Banguera, was elected the United Nations point person on sexual violence in conflict

RIGHTS-ZIMBABWE: Women Call for Truth, Justice and Reconciliation

Published date: 
13 May 2009
Women's rights groups have urged the establishment of a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission in Zimbabwe as part of bringing to justice people who committed human rights violations - including sexual abuse against women - during the run-up to a second-round presidential vote in June 2008.

Rape Now Being Prosecuted As Weapon Of War

Published date: 
11 May 2009
Local and national women's organizations In Colombia say there are thousands of cases of sexual violence - by right-wing paramilitaries and leftist guerrillas - that go unreported by women too afraid to talk. But now, the groups are campaigning to make women aware of their rights as victims and to push prosecutors to question paramilitaries about sexual violence.

Combating Sexual Violence in Conflict: Using Facts from the Ground, Donald Steinberg

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Tue, 13/01/2009 - 09:53
Publisher: 
International Crisis Group
Publisher / Organization Main page URL: 
http://www.crisisgroup.org/
Published Date: 
2008
Abstract: 
Speech by Donald Steinberg, Deputy President, International Crisis Group, to United Nations Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict in Geneva, 17 December 2008
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Combating Sexual Violence in Conflict: Using Facts from the Ground, Donald Steinberg

SHUKUMISA! A Call to Account

"Shukumisa" means to stir and shake up - which is what the Campaign intends do. Shukumisa will stir and shake up social attitudes to sexual violence and the treatment of survivors in their encounters with state services throughout the criminal justice process. The Campaign was developed by the National Working Group on Sexual Offences, a network of 26 civil society organisations from around South Africa in 2003 to ensure that effective and appropriate laws around sexual offences were passed.

The Campaign will undertake the following key actions:

Campaign location: 
South Africa (National)
Contact Person Name: 
Lisa Vetten
Contact Phone Number: 
011 403-8230/4267 or 0828226725
Email: 
lisa@tlac.org.za
Campaign website URL: 
http://www.shukumisa.org.za

Pornography and Sexual Violence

Submitted by Keba.sebetoane on Thu, 06/11/2008 - 13:09
Publisher: 
VAWnet Applied Research Forum
Author: 
Robert Jensen
Published Date: 
2004
Abstract: 
Given the epidemic levels of sexual violence and the widespread availability of increasingly graphic pornography in the United States, it is not surprising that researchers and activists have tried to answer the question of whether there is a connection between men's use of pornography and sexual violence. Since legal controls on sexually explicit material began to loosen dramatically in the 1970s and the issue attained a new visibility, a variety of different methods have been used to try to answer that question, or at least provide clues to the answer. After two decades of research, there is little consensus, not only as to that answer but as to definitions of terms, appropriate methods of investigation, or  even how to frame the question. This essay will attempt to highlight the most relevant aspects of these disputes and reach tentative conclusions that can guide people working in the field.
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Pornography and Sexual Violence

Violence Against Women On Rise

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Wed, 29/10/2008 - 15:19
Publisher: 

IRIN

Publisher / Organization Main page URL: 
http://www.alertnet.org/
Published Date: 
2008
Abstract: 

At least 300 women are victims of sexual violence every year in Bamako, according to local police records, but the actual figure is much higher said the president of the Bamako-based non-profit, Women in Law and Development in Africa.

"Victims and their families rarely denounce rapists in order to preserve the family's dignity and honour," said the group's president Sidibe Djenba Diop, "Rape cases are on the rise, yet neither the [Malian] culture nor its laws recognise, yet, that rape is an act of violence against women."

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Violence Against Women On Rise

When Girls Go Missing From The Classroom

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 15/05/2008 - 15:51
Publisher: 
The Courier, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Publisher / Organization Main page URL: 
http://portal.unesco.org/
Author: 
Cynthia Guttman
Published Date: 
2001
Abstract: 

Millions of girls are not making it into school, despite a concerted international movement to push the cause forward. In some African countries, the gender gap is even widening. What's gone wrong? In Ethiopia, girls are sometimes abducted for marriage when they're no more than eight. In West Africa, they're recruited from poor rural families to work as domestics in coastal cities or neighbouring countries. In South Africa, a recent report by Human Rights Watch warns that sexual violence and abuse is hampering girls' access to education. And in Afghanistan, they've simply been barred from school under the Taleban regime.
Customs, poverty, fear and violence: girls still account for 60 percent of the estimated 113 million out-of-school children, and the majority live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

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When Girls Go Missing From The Classroom

National Working Group on Sexual Offences

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The National Working Group on Sexual Offences is a working group of civil society organisations working in the field of gender based violence and was established to influence the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Amendment Bill [B50B-2003] for the benefit of women and children. The group worked to protect the rights of women and children, and made submissions to the Bill, created awareness on contents of the Bill and Act. The group now works on awareness raising and implementation issues of the Act.Women'sNet is a member of the Working Group.

Campaign location: 
South Africa (National)
Contact Person Name: 
Lisa Vetten from Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre
Contact Phone Number: 
+27 11 403 8230
Email: 
lisa@tlac.org.za
Campaign website URL: 
http://www.tlac.org.za/content/view/24/

One in Nine Campaign: Solidarity with Women Who Speak Out

The One In Nine Campaign was established in February 2006 at the start of the rape trial of Jacob Zuma, to ensure the expression of solidarity with the woman in that trial as well as other women who speak out about rape and sexual violence. The Medical Research Council (MRC) study on sexual violence (2005) indicated that only one out of every nine rape survivors report the attack to the police. This statistic prompted the name: "One In Nine". Furthermore, statistics indicate that of the cases that do reach the courts, less than 5 % of the rapists are convicted.

Campaign location: 
South Africa (National)
Contact Person Name: 
POWA
Contact Phone Number: 
+27 11 642-4345
Email: 
1in9@powa.co.za
Campaign website URL: 
http://www.oneinnine.org.za/
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