Canada has a promising gender-based violence legal and policy framework, but none of it accounts for the people actually delivering frontline services.
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Men and women who took part in an interfaith programme experienced a remarkably lower incidence of violence, even years later.
The new laws often shield the wealthy and punish the powerless, especially adolescent couples in relationships.
Social workers are often female and often arrive first on the scene, but have little protection.
Individuals must be equipped with the tools to understand and practise consent.
The ANC leans heavily on its liberation movement brand. But this will not necessarily be a determining factor in who will sway voters later this year.
Women’s Day is used to draw attention to the issues women still face in South Africa.
If passed in its current form, the European Union’s new directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence will be world-leading.
South Africa had one of the best national gender machineries globally. But, these were dismantled and replaced with a dysfunctional ministry for women, youth and people with disabilities.
As with Ebola, it is often only when the harm is done that people working on the response realise health emergencies disproportionately harm women.
The continuing precarity and vulnerability to violence has long term consequences for these women’s health and well-being.
The deliberations were characterised by disingenuous, counter-factual policy pronouncements, and de facto denials of the ANC’s culpability in causing many of the current problems facing the country.
Non-racialism is one of the unexamined dogmas of the governing ANC, which has never fully understood how white racism functions.
Adolescent girls are disproportionately affected by sexual and reproductive health issues. These proposed law substantively addresses these disparities.
Adolescent girls and young women aged 15 to 24 accounted for 25% of new infections, while making up only 10% of the population.
Theatre is able to create a space for discussion about how and why women experience physical and emotional violence.
Harsh socio-environmental factors, especially when they happen in the early years of a child’s life, can establish a developmental “biology of misfortune”.
Despite the success of relief efforts by the government and civil society, it’s clear that hunger and food insecurity remain at disturbingly high levels in households.
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Lecturer in Social Work, North-West University
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Professeur de sociologie, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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Visiting Professor and Professor Emeritus, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate research scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Director and Researcher at the Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU), University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of International Law, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Post-doctoral researcher, South African Medical Research Council
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Senior Policy Officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Professor in Finance, University of Canberra
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Director Research, MISTRA and Research Associate, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Political and International Studies, Rhodes University