Sexual Abuse

Weinstein convicted of sex assault, rape in ‘new era’ for #MeToo

Article Peter Hutchison - 25 Feb 2020

The 67-year-old was remanded in New York's notorious Rikers Island jail after the jury of seven men and five women found the once powerful Hollywood producer guilty of criminal sexual acts

Inside Uganda’s controversial ‘pregnancy crisis centres’, where contraception is discouraged

Africa Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu & Lydia Namubiru - 24 Feb 2020

Undercover investigation shows that controversial US-linked centres are defying government policy and providing inaccurate medical information

Men, get over the ‘monsters’ myth

Article Andile Zulu - 3 Jan 2020

They’re ordinary people and need to hold each other accountable for their actions so that all genders can feel safe

UN suspends ties with Caritas in CAR over sex abuse probe

Africa Agency - 26 Nov 2019

Caritas has been operating in the strife-torn country since 1991, mainly coordinating programmes to protect children and assist displaced people

EDITORIAL: No defence for sexual abuse

Article Editorial - 22 Nov 2019

As protestors pointed out earlier this year in countrywide demonstrations, GBV is an epidemic that needs to be addressed with great haste

Gender violence survivors get crisis fund

Article Sarah Smit - 25 Oct 2019

The fund is one of the “key actions” identified by the interim committee on gender-based violence and femicide at a recent meeting in Pretoria

Abuse taints traditional healing

Article Nation Nyoka - 27 Sep 2019

After being raped and abused repeatedly, a sangoma trainee reported her mentor to the police — only to be shunned

The chain between words and violence

Article Eusebius McKaiser - 6 Sep 2019

Boys should be taught how to speak to and about women, because language informs mindsets

Feminism 101: Pussies are not for grabbing

Article Joy Watson - 6 Sep 2019

It’s been 30 years since I found my voice – now ‘nasty’ women around the world are fighting back

Violence erodes democracy and rights

Article Danielle Hoffmeester - 6 Sep 2019

We must create cultures and norms in all spheres of society that condemn gendered attacks

Justice reconsidered for victims of sexual assault

Article Sheena Swemmer - 28 Aug 2019

With one in five men admitting to assisting in sexual assault, it is vital that those who abet perpetrators be deemed liable

Australia’s Cardinal Pell loses child sex abuse appeal

Article Holly Robertson - 21 Aug 2019

Pell had been trying to overturn the verdicts and six-year sentence for sexually assaulting two 13-year-old choirboys in the 1990s

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Democracy will flounder sans Stats SA

Sarah Smit & M&G Data Desk - 28 Feb 2020

As the government bails out state-owned entities, it is leaving a hole in the budget of the agency tasked with telling us what South Africa looks like — one that is crucial to government decisions

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