As in all its programme areas, GL's work on gender justice is evidence-based. Sixteen Day campaigns are accompanied by fact sheets. Commitments made in cyber dialogues are summarised and circulated. In 2005, GL undertook an audit of the commitments made during these dialogues in South Africa and the extent to which these had been acted upon. This became an important reference point for the ground breaking National Action Plan to End Gender Violence in 2006. GL has since worked with nine countries in developing comprehensive national action plans for ending gender violence. These in turn prompted a research project, currently in its pilot phase, for developing gender violence indicators. In partnership with UNIFEM, GL has also undertaken research on prevention of gender violence.
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South African Violence Prevention Model and Action Plan
30 April 08
Regional relevance: South Africa
A desktop review which was aimed at mapping of successful and promising strategies for preventing Gender Based Violence in South Africa is used to construct a model and action plan for addressing gaps and scaling up prevention initiatives. The reivew focused on on international best practices that demonstrated the... [read more]
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 Who will guard those meant to guard our children?
15 August 05
Regional relevance: Lesotho, Zimbabwe
When reports about the rape of 36 minor school girls allegedly by the school caretaker at a school in Zimbabwe were made public recently, I was stunned - rendered speechless and appalled. Only gross negligence on the part of the authorities at the school could have resulted in the extent of the sexual abuse going... [read more]
Women?s Day in South Africa is a time for critical reflection
11 August 05
Regional relevance: South Africa
When asking how far we have come, our analysis needs to become more nuanced. How far has who come? The rural woman for whom customary law still means that she is effectively a minor; the poor woman in a township who?s economic dependence on her abusive husband limits her options for leaving him; or the young... [read more]
The outsiders within: lesbian women and gender violence
28 April 05
Regional relevance: Namibia
The woman that I see sitting on a trolley in an overcrowded passage of the Central Hospital in Windhoek, Namibia is not the same youthful and vivacious person I had a conversation with two days ago. This woman is swollen and bruised and covered in blood; she looks much older and defeated by life. [read more]
 Unequal power relations at the root of gender violence
19 April 05
Regional relevance: South Africa
Outrage. Shock. Despair. Each of these emotions describe my initial reaction to Kwa-Zulu Natal Premier S?bu Ndebele?s comments made at the Sport and Recreation Stakeholder Conference last week. ?How is it that women are raped by feeble, drunk young men? Why can?t we train robust women in judo and karate to beat the... [read more]
Escaping from the knife
07 March 05
Regional relevance: Africa
?I was infibulated at the age of six. I remember every bit of it ... The terrible pain and lying tied up for several weeks. It hurt terribly and I cried and cried. I could not understand why this was done to me. [read more]
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