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Key dates include:
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Launch of the SADC 2010 Barometer - 22 Nov
18 November 10
Gender Links, the Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance, in collaboration with the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) cordially invites you to the launch of the SADC 2010 Barometer and the 16 Days of Activism against GBV. [read more]
Fact Sheets 2010
17 November 10
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
GL will extend the Soccer 2010 theme, and the SADC Gender Protocol targets, to the Sixteen Days of Activism with the theme: Score a goal for gender equality: Halve gender based violence by 2015' which is also the main target around gender violence in the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. [read more]
Media: part of the problem or part of the solution?
17 November 10 | (2) Comments
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
The media has a decisive role to play in changing attitudes, perceptions, and mindsets where gender violence is concerned. It is also potentially a source of information on care and support. Yet more often than not the media is part of the problem rather than of the solution. [read more]
Local action to end gender violence
16 November 10
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
This year's 16 Days will focus on actions at local government level to end gender based violence as it is the sphere of government closest to the people. This will be achieved through the Gender Links Centres of Excellence for Gender Mainstreaming in Local Government, that are currently being rolled out across the... [read more]
Tell us your story! - Survivors of gender violence
05 November 10
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
Gender Links is inviting submissions from women and men across Southern Africa who have survived or been affected by gender violence, or are reformed perpetrators, to tell us their stories as part of this year's 16 Days of Activism on Gender Violence. [read more]
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