When a man is convicted of assaulting or murdering a woman, would you expect them to smile, laugh or make peace signs?
We need to air our own complicity in muting the voices of sexual assault victims
After 10 years of silence, a 73-year-old Muslim woman shares how she became her husband’s prisoner.
‘Grace’ explores the imbalance of concealing and confronting as well as inherited histories and the complex ways they influence the future
A hotline in the US is trying to tackle the high rate of domestic violence against nurses in the Nigerian diaspora.
Funding for women’s shelters is nowhere close to what is needed, as they can’t pay their staff properly and have hardly enough money to even buy food.
What happens when those meant to protect society from domestic violence turn a blind eye?
South Africa’s first national study on the incidence of child sexual abuse reports on the extent of crimes committed against local youth.
One in three South African boys have experienced some form of sexual abuse in their lifetime.
Police are inadequately trained and social services too poorly resourced to deal with all of the reported cases of child abuse.
Child marriage affects nearly half of Mozambique’s girls. The country has unveiled a national plan to end this practice.
The notion of violence as a national health priority has yet to take hold, even among health professionals.
Some women find it hard to leave their abusers for economic and emotional reasons and feel ‘stuck’ in their situation.
Gender-based abuse costs South Africa up to R40bn a year, but can be tackled at its root by dads taking an active role in caring for their children.
The longer-term approach to ending violence against women and children has to pay attention to the development of our children, writes Catherine Ward.
If the human cost won’t, will the financial cost make government commit to a comprehensive national plan to combat gender-based violence?
There is a woman around every corner facing domestic abuse.
In cinéma vérité style, a filmmaker steps into a battered woman’s shoes to spotlight abuse.
Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai is deciding whether to veto a "backward" law that would restrict prosecutions for domestic and child abuse.
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/ 25 September 2009
The JSC has a mountain to climb to restore its reputation and all it has managed to do so far is limit further damage.
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/ 10 December 2008
Police gathered at the Johannesburg Central police station on Wednesday to march in support of the campaign of no violence against women and children.
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/ 8 December 2008
The gender commission is just a government body stacked with bureaucrats whose interests leave little room for the ‘ordinary woman’.