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In light of The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign, discover from the following organizations how you can help combat violence against women!

👉 Coalition on Violence Against Women (COVAW) 

👉 Musasa

👉 Raising Voices 

👉 Sonke Gender Justice

👉 Stand To End Rape Initiative (STER)

👉 Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF)

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5 Job positions for youth at Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU)

Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU), Uganda Youth and Adolescents Health Forum (UYAHF), and the Eastern African Sub-regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI) with support from Sonke Gender Justice are implementing a five (5)-year (2021-2025) programme, Power To You(th) PTY that aims at empowering adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) to increase their agency, claim their…

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Women and children in South Africa hit by refugee office closure, court hears

This piece was written by Liezl Human, a freelance journalist in Cape Town, and published by GroundUp on 12 November 2020.

The NGO Sonke Gender Justice has asked the Western Cape High Court to be admitted as amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) in the case between the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town and the Minister of Home Affairs. A virtual hearing took place on Wednesday, 11 November, before Judge Rosheni Allie. Judgment was reserved.

In September 2017, the Supreme Court of Appeal ordered the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) to reopen the Cape Town Refugee Reception Office by 31 March 2018. The DHA missed the deadline. 

Scalabrini brought another application to have Home Affairs reopen the Cape Town office. It also wants the court to put in place a “special measure” which will appoint a master to oversee compliance with reopening the refugee office. 

According to Sonke’s Kayan Leung, Sonke applied as amicus to introduce evidence it has collected on the “gendered impact on the closure of the refugee reception office.” [Read more here.]

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Safe Rides Campaign with Sonke Gender Justice

Pics, screen munches and insta posts from the event. Black Womxn Caucus showing support with some singing.

Sonke Gender Justice then held a #SafeRides campaign event in Ivory Park in December, which is aimed at raising awareness around the challenges and dangers faced by people (specifically womxn) in using public transport (I.e taxis). Here, the aim of the campaign is to get the different…

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Sonke Gender Justice Calls On The South African Government To Unequivocally Stand With The People Of Palestine And Halt All Diplomatic Ties With Israel

Sonke Gender Justice Calls On The South African Government To Unequivocally Stand With The People Of Palestine And Halt All Diplomatic Ties With Israel

Via Muganga Mark Kasiita (Twitter @Kasiitamark) The world is once again witnessing another cycle of violence and destruction of Palestine and its people at the hands of the racist Israeli state, and for this reason Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke) is calling on the South African government to unequivocally stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine and halt all diplomatic ties with…

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Africa: Call Out Perpetrators of GBV to Help End Violence Against Women and Girls

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Africa: Call Out Perpetrators of GBV to Help End Violence Against Women and Girls

[UNFPA] "It is not true that men do not know who among their circle of friends is a rapist. Men sometimes sit in bars and discuss how they can have sex with a girl without her consent by way of altering her judgment using, for instance, alcohol and drugs," said Bafana Khumalo, Sonke Gender Justice Co-Executive Director.

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News24.com | Prisons still overcrowded despite special parole for thousands to curb Covid-19 spread

Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola.

The Department of Justice and Correctional Service has, in the last five years, added 2 650 extra beds at prisons.

In the next five years, it plans to add another 3 006 extra bed spaces.

The Eastern Cape and Gauteng have recorded the highest prison overpopulation figures.

Government has in the past five years added 2 650 extra bed space at correctional service facilities across the country, but the latest figures show close to 30 000 inmates are still without a bed.

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Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola revealed his department has planned to add 3 006 extra bed space in the next five years, “through construction and upgrading of facilities”.

Lamola replied to a written parliamentary question from DA MP James Selfe who had requested details on the latest prison population figures.

“In 2016, the case of Sonke Gender Justice judgment found that the government and the department had failed to provide the inmates of Pollsmoor Remand Detention Facility (RDF) with exercise, nutrition, accommodation, ablution facilities and health care services of a standard that complies with the requirements of the Correctional Services Act (Act 111, 1998) and that the failure is inconsistent with the Constitution.   

“It is this high court judgment that made the executive of the department to utilise the 150% threshold as the maximum overcrowding status,” Lamola’s reply read. 

Lamola said only 4 138 of the 19 000 inmates eligible for special early parole due to the Covid-19 pandemic had been released by 24 June.

This eased the overpopulation in South Africa’s prisons from 30.68% to 24.75%.

News24 reported last week that just under 7 000 of the planned 19 000 prisoners had been released on special parole dispensation.

The announcement was made by Lamola in a speech to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Meeting of the Group of Friends on the Nelson Mandela Rules last week. 

READ | 1 217 inmates and 1 028 officials infected with Covid-19, recoveries at 74% – Correctional Services

“Prior to the releases, the total population was 154 943 (101 928 sentenced and 53 015 remand detainees and other unsentenced inmates) which translated into a total population of 30.68% overpopulation which made social distancing difficult. 

“After the releases, as at 24 June 2020, the inmate population was 147 922 consisting of (95 159 sentenced offenders and 52 763 remand detainees and other unsentenced inmates) which brought the overcrowding level to 24.75%,” Lamola said.

The current total approved bed space for correctional facilities across the country is 118 572.

The Eastern Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape are the worst affected provinces.

ALSO READ | Covid-19 parole: Seven of the 6 791 inmates released have reoffended, been arrested

In the Eastern Cape, correctional facilities can accommodate 13 294 inmates, but there are 19 422, of which 6 186 are remand detainees (awaiting-trial) and 13 236 sentenced offenders.

Prisons here are 46% overcrowded.

Prisons in Gauteng are 46.31% overcrowded and with a total bed space of 24 877, its currently accommodating 36 397 inmates (both awaiting trial and sentenced offenders).

The Western Cape’s prisons are 20.94% overcrowded. The province’s correctional facilities have bed space for 20 779 inmates, but there’s currently 11 871 remand detainees and 13 095 sentenced offenders housed.

Of the three biggest provinces, KwaZulu-Natal has the lowest overcrowding figure at 18.19%.

The province’s correctional service centres can accommodate 20 281 inmates, yet they currently house 23 970 – of which 7 417 are awaiting trial and 16 553 are sentenced offenders.

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Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke) Job S.Africa Aug 2018

Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke) Job S.Africa Aug 2018

Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke) Recruitment in S.Africa Aug 2018 Job opportunities : Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke) career Employment

Work Opportunity Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke)

  Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke) works globally and across Africa to strengthen government, civil society and citizen capacity to take action to promote gender equality, prevent domestic and sexual violence and reduce…

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Sonke Applauds President Joe Biden’s Decision To Repeal The Global Gag Rule

Sonke Applauds President Joe Biden’s Decision To Repeal The Global Gag Rule

By Muganga Mark Kasiita (Twitter @Kasiitamark) Sonke Gender Justice welcomes reports stating that the President of the United States, Joe Biden has repealed the “Global Gag Rule” (GGR), officially known as the Mexico City Policy.  The Global Gag Rule, reintroduced by Donald Trump in 2017 prohibited U.S. global health assistance from being provided to foreign non-governmental organizations that…

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South Africa’s rape epidemic

BROWN LEKEKELA dreads the end of the month. Payday means binge drinking. Violence follows. Women turn up battered and distraught at his gate, usually with small children in tow. They have nowhere else to go: Mr Lekekela’s emergency shelter, Green Door, is the only one in all of Diepsloot, a hardscrabble township north of Johannesburg that is home to an estimated half a million souls. The shelter, built in the yard of his humble house, can fit two women and their children, plus maybe one more family on the couch in his office. He runs it on donations and sheer willpower.

Mr Lekekela has a first-aid kit and some training to treat minor injuries. For more serious ones, it can take hours for an ambulance to arrive. Sometimes the women (or their children) have been raped. But with no other income or support, they often end up returning to their abusive partners. “It’s hard,” says the soft-spoken Mr Lekekela. “But if I don’t do it, who will?”

Rape and domestic violence are hard to measure, since victims often suffer in silence. And headline-writers overuse the word “epidemic”. But in South Africa it clearly applies. For a study published in November by the University of the Witwatersrand and Sonke Gender Justice, a non-profit group, 2,600 men in Diepsloot were surveyed anonymously. An astonishing 38% admitted to having used force or threats to obtain sex in the preceding year. Add those who said they had beaten, hurt or threatened to use a weapon against a woman, and the share jumps to 54%. Of those men, more than half said they had committed such crimes more than once.

Many men in Diepsloot, as in many other parts of South Africa, do not think they are doing anything wrong. They think they have a right to use force against their partners. In addition, many of the men interviewed had themselves experienced childhood abuse or trauma. Some were mentally ill. Those who abuse others suffer few consequences, whether from the law or neighbours. Diepsloot, a warren of shacks with pockets of small houses, did not exist until the mid-1990s, so everyone comes from somewhere else. “These men think they can do whatever they like,” says Precious Moeketsi, a 28-year-old with two young children who shares a shack with her sister’s family. “I feel worried living here.”

Although South Africa has strict laws against violence, they are spottily enforced. Researchers found that of 500 sexual-assault cases reported to the police in Diepsloot since 2013, only one resulted in a conviction. Small wonder rape is so rarely reported. (Researchers guess that police are informed about only one of every nine sexual assaults in South Africa.) Women worry about what friends and family will think. Some fear reprisals. Policemen are sometimes sceptical and tell women to go home and smooth things over. Even officers who take the issue seriously are hamstrung. Diepsloot’s police station has no specialist unit for rape and sexual-assault cases; the nearest one takes an hour to get to. The closest state hospital that can examine victims is 30km away.

Simply getting to court can be steep barrier. To get a restraining order, for example, a woman in Diepsloot will have to pay 26 rand ($2) for a round trip by minibus-taxi to the nearest magistrates’ court—a lot of money for a woman with no job. Lawyers Against Abuse, a non-profit group, supports women with free legal and psychological services offered from a refurbished shipping container near the police station.

The cycle of abuse “will become the culture of how we live”, frets Mr Lekekela. “But this is not how we are supposed to live.”

This article appeared in the Middle East and Africa section of the print edition under the headline "Disgrace"

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TECMN | Sonke Gender Justice & UNFPA has brought together MenEngage Africa key stakehold

TECMN | Sonke Gender Justice & UNFPA has brought together MenEngage Africa key stakehold

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Resurrection Pastor South Africa Mboro And His Terror

Resurrection Pastor South Africa Mboro And His Terror

Prophet Paseka Motsoeneng from South Africa has always been in the limelight not because of good things, but doing various criminal activities done by him confidently in front of the public. He is popularly known as Mboro and facing various criminal charges at Hillbrow police station over his reluctance to cooperate with an investigation by the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Cultural‚ Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL).

The resurrection pastor south Africa is often called as the biscuit pastor, when he pumped his fingers into the vagina of the 17 years old girl in the name of healing her swollen belly as well as inserted his food inside to vagina of another women who was suffering from painful sex, sprinkled the holy water on his hand he rubbed her genitals. Sonke Gender Justice raised a complaint against the pastor for sexual assault in June of that year - and he was arrested, but later "The CGE rejected the complaint in August 2011 and said that the CGE respects people’s religious beliefs and these people go to resurrection pastor latest Motsoeneng’s church voluntarily.

Later that year Mboro went for an interview with the Urban Brew studios and he reached there with his seven fully armed bodyguards. The Kuli Roberts – the interviewer told that she was so scared that she could not sleep after the interview and she was literally shaking during the interview. She also said that she kept on thinking about him and didn’t know how to address him. She kept on calling him pastor Mboro and prophet Mboro to this fake prophet because she was scared to offend him. She also said that she has done various interviews before confidently but that was the scariest she has done in her life.

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UCLA Law – Sonke Health & Human Rights Fellowship 2019/2020 for African Legal Professionals & Law Graduates

UCLA Law – Sonke Health & Human Rights Fellowship 2019/2020 for African Legal Professionals & Law Graduates

Application Deadline: February 1st 2019

University of California, Los Angeles School of Law (UCLA Law) and Sonke Gender Justice Network (Sonke)announce the launch of the UCLA Law – Sonke Health & Human Rights Fellowship. Commencing in August 2019, the programme will provide specialised training to top graduates from South African law schools for careers as impact-oriented public interest…

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UCLA Sonke Health & Human Rights Fellowships in South Africa, 2019

UCLA Sonke Health & Human Rights Fellowships in South Africa, 2019

The University of California, Los Angeles School of Law (UCLA Law) and Sonke Gender Justice Network (Sonke) is offering scholarship opportunities to Africans who are willing to pursue a degree program in South Africa.

The Fellowship offers a full-tuition grant to enroll in UCLA Law’s Master of Law Program (LL.M.) and assists Fellows in securing living and travel expenses for their studies. It…

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Sonke Gender Justice Latest job Positions in S.Africa July 2018

Sonke Gender Justice Latest job Positions in S.Africa July 2018

July 2018 – Sonke Gender Justice New Job Positions in S.Africa

Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke) works globally and across Africa to strengthen government, civil society and citizen capacity to take action to promote gender equality, prevent domestic and sexual violence and reduce the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS.

Job Title: Enrolled Nurse for the Population Project Job Location: Cape Town R…

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Sonke! So much appreciation and love for the people that make up Sonke Gender Justice. It has been such an honor to work alongside incredible gender justice advocates. I am going back feeling like a restored warrior. I am grateful for the family and relationships developed. So much love and respect.