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Gender Violence and Xenophobia
 
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Tuesday 9 December 2008

Xenophobia has become a serious issue in South Africa, peaking earlier on this year, when pandemonium broke out in the townships in Johannesburg. Women migrants were particularly vulnerable to attacks in the form of sexual assault and verbal abuse.  Most media reports during this period failed to bring out the gender dimension to the crisis and incidences of gender violence especially sexual violence in the holding camps mostly went unreported or under reported. Local community leaders and civic groups have maintained that the official statistics on the extent of the Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the camps can never be accurate.

Cyber dialogue: Gender Based Violence and Xenophobia - Ubuntu, ngubuntu, ngabantu
Time: 12.00 - 13.00 SA Time
Language: English

Contact:
Centre for the study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)
www.csvr.org.za

Human Rights Watch
www.hrw.org

Sikhonzile Ndlovu
Te: +27 (0)11 622 2877
Email: medialit@genderlinks.org.za

Loveness Jambaya
Email:  justice@genderlinks.org.za

Files to download:
  Fact Sheet: Gender violence and xenophobia - 183455 KB
  Summary Gender violence and Xenophobia cyberdialogues - 30720 KB
 
 
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