The under-investment in cash transfers and caring services by the government suggests that many may well fall still further behind
The government had a plan to build domestic violence care into clinic services more than two decades ago but nothing ever came of it. Researcher Lisa Vetten argues it’s not too late to bring the long forgotten project back to life
Our past tells us that women mobilise in ways that produce significant political results. But the present shows how easily these gains can evaporate.
A US global fund has cut back on critical funding for services provided to survivors of violent crime. Government must provide a sustainable solution.
It wasn’t really about ‘impartial, objective’ judgment, but rather competing narratives.
Flawed reasoning and distorted statistics characterise attempts by some on South Africa’s white right to prove black men are more violent than white.
The proposed equality legislation just duplicates functions from other laws, and offers nothing new, writes Lisa Vetten.
Activism has to command the short attention spans of the outraged if it is to succeed, writes Lisa Vetten.
It is an atypical argument for a gender activist to make – that the police must put more effort into investigating cases of stranger rape.
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/ 29 October 2010
A gender activist slams the media’s contention that the Protection from Harassment Bill is part of a state conspiracy to clamp down on the media