Conflict and gender
- Waiting Opportunities: Adolescent Girls' Experiences of Gender-Based Violence at Schools
- S. Haffejee / Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006
- To what extent do adolescent girls in South Africa experience gender-based violence in their heterosexual relationships at school? What is being done to support victims and change attitudes towards vi...
- Expanding Abused Women's Access to Housing
- E. Emdon / Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006
- What housing is available to South African women who flee their homes to escape domestic violence and have to find their own accommodation? This report provides an overview of the different government...
- Diversity and Transformation in the South African Police Service: A Study of Police Perspectives on Race, Gender and the Community in the Johannesburg Policing Area
- J. Dlamini; T. Masuku; G. Newham / Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006
- What are the perceptions, attitudes and experiences of South African police officers on race and gender? This report aims to investigate how successfully the South African Police Service (SAPS) has be...
- On the Margins: Violence Against Women with Disabilities. Research Report Written for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
- S. Haffejee; S. Hargreaves; E. Naidu / Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2005
- Why are South African women with disabilities more vulnerable to violence than non-disabled women and experience it differently? To what extent do service providers recognise and respond to their need...
- Daai Ding: Sex, Sexual Violence and Coercion in Men's Prisons
- S. Gear; K. Ngubeni / Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2002
- Sex in men's prison most often happens in the context of 'prison marriages' with one man being a 'husband' and the other the 'wife'. Prisoners report that like (in their view of) heterosexual husband ...
- Understanding current xenophobic attacks and how South Africa can move forward
- Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2008
- This article is a record of a presentation made by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) to the South African Parliament. In the aftermath of the xenophobic violence o...
- Trials and truth commissions: seeking accountability in the aftermath of violence
- N. Valji / Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2009
- This paper discusses the background of the need for alternative and complementary mechanisms which affect justice, human rights and rule of law which have given rise to what is called ‘transitio...
- Double jeopardy: women migrants and refugees 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 bloods...
- Fear, violence and sexual violence in a Gauteng juvenile correctional centre for males
- 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 visio...
- Women on the run: female survivors of torture amongst Zimbabwean asylum seekers and refugees in South Africa
- 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 sho...
