Sexual violence
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.
Police Minister Bheki Cele on Friday said that certain categories of sexual offences recorded had decreased while other categories were on the increase.
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.
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.
The first ladies of Liberia, Niger, Ghana, Chad and Gambia gave their backing to the initiative.
Forms of conflict-related sexual violence include – but are not limited to – rape, forced pregnancy, slavery and torture.
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.
This year's prize recognises that violence against women has become a weapon of war.
Minister Naledi Pandor recently revealed over 40 incidents of sexual violence were reported on campuses last year.
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.
Angelina Jolie referenced the recent sexual misconduct allegations in Hollywood while asking United Nations peacekeepers to crack down on sexual violence
Gender-based violence transcends national borders and class boundaries to touch the lives of roughly 33% of all women worldwide.
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.
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.
Nearly a third of women worldwide in intimate relationships will experience violence at the hands of their partners.
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.
Africa Checks looks at the claim by an SA activist that a quarter of girls and 17% of boys would be sexually abused before their 18th birthday.
Umoja a town located outside of Nairobi was founded by a group of Samburu women in 1990.
The global campaign against sexual violence begins tomorrow.