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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State of emergency needed to end gender violence
10 December 10
Regional relevance: South Africa
Gender Links (GL) has called on the government to declare a state of emergency in the fight to end gender violence. In a press release to mark the close of the Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender Violence GL said that countless research studies now show that the problem is overwhelming and the response is... [read more]
Dec 7 - Sex work
03 December 10
Gender Links in partnership with Tswaranang Legal Advice Centre will hold a face to face discussion with a group of sex workers who will share their experiences of gender based violence. Community radio practitioners and journalists will also be present. [read more]
Dec 6 - Culture, tradition, religion and role of men
03 December 10
A group of male ex-perpetrators of violence will speak out against gender based violence. Gender LInks has compiled a collection of their first hand accounts as part of the 16 Days campaign. Young men will also join the dialogue so that we can have a cross-generational discussion. Community radio practitioners and... [read more]
Dec 2 - Sexual orientation and GBV
01 December 10 | (2) Comments
Join us for a debate on "Sexual Orientation and GBV" at 11h00 today. You can log on to the online chat for further discussions at 13h00. [read more]
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Dear President Zuma, Minister Nthetwa and the cabinet
09 June 09
Regional relevance: South Africa
It was encouraging to hear in your recent State of the Nation address that crimes against women and children will receive “the most serious attention.” This follows the statement only a few days ago by Deputy Minister of Police, Fikile Mbalula, that the government was considering reintroducing the specialist... [read more]
Report shows women migrants continue to live in fear
01 June 09
Regional relevance: South Africa
Johannesburg, 1 June. It has been just over a year since the few weeks of seeming madness in May 2008, when xenophobic violence broke out across South Africa, shocking the nation and attracting international condemnation. However, migrant women in South Africa consider that period as an example, albeit extreme, of... [read more]
 More work, less pay for women
24 March 09
Regional relevance: International
“No, my mommy doesn’t work,” chirped the children. Never mind that the average mother puts in 30 hours of unpaid domestic work every week. The children could not see it. Neither did governments or institutes of statistics. Their work was invisible, unpaid, and unrecognised. [read more]
Afghan women guarding progress
06 March 09
Regional relevance: International
“I made her a nice house, I buy her gold, and I don’t beat her up too often.” This is the answer an Afghan man would give if you asked him for his definition of a woman’s rights, says Suraya Pakzad, founder of the Voice of Women Organisation. Speaking at a press briefing yesterday on Afghan women’s... [read more]
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