Press Releases

Representatives from Capricorn District Municipality are attending a joint South Africa and Swaziland Gender Justice Summit and Awards. The event is held on 09 and 10 May 2018 at Matsapha in Swaziland. The aim of the summit is to share best practices on issues pertaining to gender and gender based violence. The summit is attended […]

The African Union Commission/ Women, Gender and Development Division AUC/WGDD is developing a gender strategy, which is expected to be finalised and discussed by the Specialised Technical Committee on Gender and Women Empowerment in December 2017. To read the concept note, click here. The AU is consulting with stakeholders worldwide in October. For more information […]

        Southern Africa: SADC Gender Protocol Alliance launches the 2017 SADC Gender Protocol Barometer. The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Gender Protocol Alliance (Alliance)  launched the 2017 edition of the annual SADC Gender Protocol Barometer (Barometer). The launch  coincided with SADC Day which was celebrated in line with the 37th Heads of […]

Toronto, 20 October 2017: The Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) urges the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to take action to advance gender equality in and through the media, information and communication technologies. In its statement to the Commission, GAMAG outlines eight (8) policy and practice actions for UN Member States, […]

The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has learnt with outrage and disgust about the molestation of 83 learners at AB Xuma Primary School in Soweto by a Scholar Patroller.  Through its mandate, the CGE will ensure that it supports and ensure that adequate interventions and responses are put in place by relevant state institutions and […]

By Salifa Magnan Gender Based Violence is a common problem in Seychelles and the majority of the affected are women. The most recent study shows that at least 54 percent of women have experienced some form of intimate domestic violence. According to the 2016 SADC Gender Protocol Barometer gender, biased attitudes contribute towards violence against […]

By Sikhangele Moyo Over the past two years, I have had the privilege to work with young women under the Zimbabwe Works enterprise business development program which targets young women between the ages of 20-35years.The main objective of the program is to empower young women economically through the business management training and linking the beneficiaries […]

By Runyararo Mutariswa “A rapist does not have to be a stranger, someone you never saw or a man with obvious problems to be legitimate. If you have been in public with him, danced one dance, kissed him goodbye lightly with a closed mouth, pressing charges will be as hard as keeping your legs closed […]

Johannesburg, 8 August: Women’s day in South Africa is celebrated amid a victory for democracy, with the decision to undertake a secret vote of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma, but a disappointing outcome as Zuma survived an eighth such vote in as many years. Women’s Day is also being celebrated under the dark shadow […]

Johannesburg, 3 August: This August, Gender Links (GL) joins South Africa in commemorating Women’s Month under the theme “The Year of OR Tambo: Women united in moving South Africa forward.”  Every  year South Africa sets aside the month of August not only to celebrate Women’s Month, National Women’s Day, but also to pay tribute to […]