Sexual violence
Minister Lindiwe Zulu visits CT school to talk about rape, teen pregnancies
The purpose of the dialogue was to create awareness around these issues and to encourage open discussion and effective community supportive networks for...
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DA: More than 36,000 sexual offences cases in WC delayed due to DNA test backlog
The party said it's submitted a dossier on the crisis to President Cyril Ramaphosa's National Council on gender-based violence.
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Women march across Australia against sexual violence and inequality
The #March4Justice rallies are being held in more than 40 Australian cities and towns, with a major demonstration in Canberra following allegations of sexual assault in the nation's parliament.
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KwaSizabantu mission leaders stage walkout at CRL commission
The mission has drawn widespread attention after abuse allegations emerged in a series of stories by News24.
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Educational institutions seeing increase in sexual violence - Cele
Police Minister Bheki Cele on Friday said that certain categories of sexual offences recorded had decreased while other categories were on the increase.
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Nigerians mass online to demand '#justice' for abuses
The latest outpouring of anger has been unleashed by the cases of three women and girls who were killed or raped in incidents activists say showcase the sexual violence and police brutality widespread in Nigeria.
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Soaring sexual violence pushes S.Leone to face 'rape culture'
Thousands of children and young girls were raped last year in Sierra Leone - a silent epidemic of suffering in one of the world's poorest countries.
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Hundreds march in Sierra Leone against sexual violence
The first ladies of Liberia, Niger, Ghana, Chad and Gambia gave their backing to the initiative.
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[OPINION] Sexual violence as weapon of war: Why Nobel Prize for Peace matters
Forms of conflict-related sexual violence include – but are not limited to – rape, forced pregnancy, slavery and torture.
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Nobel Peace Prize to honour champions of struggle against sexual violence
Murad and Mukwege will be jointly presented with the prize in Oslo after they were announced as winners by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in October.
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[ANALYSIS] Nobel Peace Prize awarded for campaigns against sexual violence
This year's prize recognises that violence against women has become a weapon of war.
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Dept of Higher Education to host summit on sexual violence at universities
Minister Naledi Pandor recently revealed over 40 incidents of sexual violence were reported on campuses last year.
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Angelina Jolie urges Nato to tackle sexual violence in war
Jolie made her appeal to the US-led alliance’s top decision-making body, the North Atlantic Council, in Brussels, and later met Nato military commanders.
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Angelina Jolie urges UN to crack down on sexual violence
Angelina Jolie referenced the recent sexual misconduct allegations in Hollywood while asking United Nations peacekeepers to crack down on sexual violence
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[OPINION] Sexual violence is a ‘global pandemic’
Gender-based violence transcends national borders and class boundaries to touch the lives of roughly 33% of all women worldwide.
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Feminist icons join bid to upend Congo's rape capital reputation
More than 400,000 women are raped in Congo every year, and much of the sexual violence is considered to be a by-product of years of fighting.
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[OPINION] Women in power are complicit in SA’s gender-based violence
South Africa has one of the worst records of violence against women in the world. But not all women in the country seem to want to change this.
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[ANALYSIS] Why home is the most dangerous place for women
Nearly a third of women worldwide in intimate relationships will experience violence at the hands of their partners.
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[ANALYSIS] The UN’s problem: it’s not just gender violence, it’s child rape
The UN has confirmed that UN staff perpetrated 145 cases of sexual exploitation and abuse involving 311 victims in 2016 alone, with many of them children.
