Building on strong strategic communications training and research Gender Links has applied this to build sustainable advocacy campaigns on a range of issues at regional level.
GL has played a leading role in raising the profile of the Sixteen Days of No Violence Against Women Campaign from 25 November (International Day of No Violence Against Women) to 10 December (Human Rights Day) each year.
Through the cyber dialogues, a flagship project of the 16 Days campaign, GL has been at the forefront of the Making IT work for gender justice campaign. Linking the justice and governance programmes, GL is also working with local councils to participate in Sixteen Days campaigns across Southern Africa.
Gender Links uses key dates and events to conduct advocacy work on gender violence. For example the ended 2010 Soccer World Cup Score a goal for gender equality campaign, International Women's Day, Women's month in South Africa and Millennium Development Goals 10 year review.
GL is one of two African NGOs that sit on the UN Secretary General's Africa advisory committee for the UNite campaign.
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Zambia: I have a passion to help people
28 June 11
Regional relevance: Zambia
My name is Grace Chewe and I am married with six children. I had seven but one has since passed on. My passion and desire is to share with the needy the little that is there regardless of where they come from and what they are doing. [read more]
Zambia: Men make great care workers too
26 June 11
Regional relevance: Zambia
I started care work in 2003 when I joined the VK Community Care Organisation. VK Community Care Organisation was registered in 2002 and is located in Garden Compound, 7km from Lusaka centre, and has a population of 12 000 people. [read more]
South Africa: Pretoria church caters for physical and spiritual needs
26 June 11
Regional relevance: South Africa
As a church, Pretoria Central Baptist Church understands that a human's needs are not just spiritual but physical. Jesus demonstrated this by both preaching and feeding the 5000 hungry people who had gathered to listen to His message of salvation. [read more]
Zambia: Caring for the deaf
26 June 11
Regional relevance: Zambia
My name is Percos Sinkamba and I am 33-year-old man from the Copperbelt Province in Zambia.
I am the founder of Good Shepherd Deaf Care Mission and we care for 740 deaf people in ten districts of my province. I formed the organisation in August 2003 and I have trained a group for the deaf in sign language.
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Madagascar: Care work that counts
21 June 11
Regional relevance: Madagascar
My name is RANDRIARIMANANA Fanjaniaina Emélie and I am a 36-years-old journalist and care giver. I am a member of the Federation pour la Promotion Feminine et Enfantine (FPFE) in the Eastern Coast region of Madagascar (Atsinanana TOAMASINA). [read more]
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My father saved me
20 November 09
Regional relevance: South Africa
It's 12 midnight, as I lay awake beside him. My head is filled with confusion as I weigh the options for the next course of action to take. I am struggling to sleep and worse still, I cannot stand seeing his face. Part of me is telling me to stab him and end all the misery that he is causing me, but the other side... [read more]
No longer scared in a house of my own
01 November 09
Regional relevance: Zambia
Marriage brings happiness to some, but for me it was a nightmare for twenty-five years. I stayed in an abusive marriage, enduring it, always hoping that what did not work out today, would tomorrow. It was my son’s sickness that ended it: a son who had been a breadwinner for my husband and me. Because it ended, I... [read more]
Women should exercise social networking caution
01 November 09
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
As the region’s technological capacity grows, a new kind of gender violence is emerging in Southern Africa. In this new media age, the information super highway has become a tool for social networking and the world has become a global village where people of different walks of life are meeting. However, women in... [read more]
I am the daughter of a chief
01 October 09
Regional relevance: Zambia
I am the daughter of a chief. Royalty. Yet I feel as worthless as a child that has been cast out to the streets. [read more]
Standing together in the face of abandonement
22 September 09
Regional relevance: Zambia
My name is Mubayandi Kwiima.* I am 39-years-old and a mother of five. I’m the second wife in the polygamous marriage of three wives. I work as a clerk at one of the government ministries in Zambia. [read more]
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