South Africa and Gender
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- The goals set by UNGASS to tackle the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South African and how it hopes to achieve them
- Health Systems Trust, South Africa, 2008
- This report, collated by the Health Systems Trust, contributes to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) AIDS 2008 review process. It looks at the goals set by UNGASS to improve the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Afr...
- Report reveals the extent of the impact of HIV and AIDS on poor rural women in South Africa
- Amnesty International, 2008
- This report from Amnesty International investigates the impact of HIV and AIDS on poor rural women in South Africa, based on interviews with rural women living with HIV. Many women reported feeling at risk of violence when they sugges...
- Climate change and sub-Saharan Africa: points of vulnerability and potential for adaptation
- H. Connor; L. Mqadi; P. Mukheibir / HELIO International, 2007
- Africa is vulnerable to climate change on two fronts: firstly, because of existing vulnerabilities and secondly, due to capacity limitations for disaster mitigation and inability to adapt to climate change. There is an urgent nee...
- What is the role of fathers in South Africa?
- L. Richter; R. Morrell / Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2006
- What do we know about fathers in South Africa, what their roles are and what they should try to encourage? This large online book outlines how there is a difference between fathers and fatherhood. Fatherhood is not in fact a biologica...
- Lessons about preventing rape from South Africa
- D. Peacock; B. Khumalo / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
- In South Africa, only one in nine victims report rape and fewer than ten percent of reported rapes lead to a conviction. This paper draws out key lessons about rape in South Africa pointing to the endemic nature of violence in South A...
- How should violence be prevented in South Africa?
- R. Fuller; V. Williams; N. Jaynes; Z. Nkongolo / Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2008
- In May 2008, South Africa was shaken by an outbreak of a wave of violence characterised by an intensity and fierceness previously unknown in this young democracy and reminiscent of apartheid bloodshed. This edition contains articles b...
- Young men's reports of fear and violence in a South African prison
- S. Gear / Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2007
- Violence, described as endemic to South African Correctional Centres is generally under-reported and a severe hindrance to the Department of Correctional Services’ current and ambitious vision to reduce re-offending through reha...
- How South Africa responds to Zimbabwean women fleeing violence
- Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006
- Large numbers of Zimbabwean women are fleeing their homes and even their country to avoid violence. This report was written to coincide with South Africa's 'Sixteen days on gender activism'. It shows that a significant proportion of t...
- Funding gender based violence programmes in South Africa
- D. Budlender; J. Kuhn 2007
- Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a pressing concern in South Africa, with levels of rape, domestic violence and femicide unabated during its fourteen years of democracy. Despite this, civil society organisations (CSOs) working in t...
- Gender and sexual relations in South Africa
- N. N. Nyawo; R. Sathiparsad; M. Taylor / Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Center, 2006
- Gender is a culture-specific construct, and the unequal power balance in gender relations that favours males has been shown to be associated with the transmission of HIV/AIDS. This qualitative study explored the views of female high s...
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