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Strategic Communications Training Report for 2003
07 November 03
Regional relevance: South Africa
This project is a follow up to the training offered by Gender Links and partner organizations in 2002 in three South African provinces: the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Gauteng. In 2003, workshops were conducted in North West, Free State, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu Natal. [read more]
GEM commentary service - 2003 16 days of peace special edition
03 November 03
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
For each day of the 16 days of peace, a daily commentary was available on this website, along with an issue for the day, a poll on the issue, and a discussion board for this issue. [read more]
2003 Sixteen Days of Peace Campaign
03 November 03
Regional relevance: South Africa
As part of the 2003 campaign - "imagine a world free of gender violence and hiv/aids" - a consortium of NGOs launched a special "pep talk" campaign. The campaign consisted of raising awareness on post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) around Southern Africa, where in many countries this treatment is still not provided for. [read more]
Sixteen Days of Peace 2002: A Case Study on Gender and Strategic Communications
29 November 02
Campaign report 2002 [read more]
2002 Sixteen days of Peace Campaign
01 November 02
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
During the period leading up to the 16 days of activism, GL and its partner organisations offered training to gender activists on how to run and communicate successful campaigns. The training was offered in three provinces in Souh Africa as well as in Lesotho for the regional component. [read more]
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Sixteen Days: One step forwards two steps backwards?
22 November 06
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
The year began on a positive note. Frustrated by each year having to answer the same set of questions about whether there had been any progress in ending gender violence, last year?s Sixteen Days of Activism campaign saw a groundswell of support for a coordinated year long campaign in which the Sixteen Days became... [read more]
Survivors of gender violence lead the march
22 November 06
Regional relevance: South Africa
When residents of Johannesburg march through Hillbrow to Constitution Hill on the first day of the Sixteen Days of Activism on Gender Violence this Saturday, women who have decided to break the silence will be at the front of the march. [read more]
Media needs to step up coverage on gender issues all year round
14 November 06
Regional relevance: South Africa
Media did not invent gender inequalities or any form of social inequality for that matter. Yet media is central to both knowingly and unwittingly promoting gender inequalities. By providing a particular set of representations, media feeds off and feeds into social assumptions and practices that ultimately undermine... [read more]
Women?s ?tough-love? protest demands change
07 November 06
Regional relevance: Zimbabwe
Women in Zimbabwe are taking to the streets to show their frustration with poor governance, lack of basic social services, and unprecedented increases in the cost of education. In the process, police have arrested nearly 1000 women members of the pressure group Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), for their attempts to... [read more]
Burning issues in the Sexual Offences Bill
27 October 06
Regional relevance: South Africa
Johannesburg 20 October: With just a little over a month to go the Sixteen Days of Activism on Gender Violence, pressure is mounting for parliament to pass the long awaited Sexual Offenses Bill. The danger is that in the rush to get the bill enacted before the start of the campaign on 25 November (International Day... [read more]
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