Human Rights & Gender Justice

In South Africa, a woman is raped every 26 seconds. The Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre together with the Heinrich Böll Foundation have unveiled a mural in Johannesburg to highlight the need for the state and communities to improve their response to violence against women. 

Heinrich Böll Foundation and Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre launch a shadow report on shelters for abused women as an advocacy tool to mobilise greater support and resources from government.

In South Africa, a woman is raped every 26 seconds. With the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation a mural has been unveiled in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town to highlight the need for the state and communities to improve their response to violence against women.

In South Africa, a gap between pro-gender equality policies adopted by government and the lived reality of the majority of women continues to persist. In a contribution to bridge this gap, the Women’s Legal Centre with support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation has been able to achieve a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court relating to customary law and polygynous marriages.

This review of the State of the Nation Address (SONA) for 2013, as delivered by President Jacob Zuma in parliament on 14 February 2013, gauges how government’s priorities for the year will affect the social, political and economic status of women. It also measures the advances made with regards to the five priorities the president set in the 2009 SONA, namely: Decent work, education, crime, health and rural development and agrarian reform.

In South Africa, a woman is raped every 26 seconds. The Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre together with the Heinrich Böll Foundation have unveiled a mural in Johannesburg to highlight the need for the state and communities to improve their response to violence against women.

On the 15th of September 2012, more than 30 Lavender Hill community members and representatives of local organizations attended a townhall meeting to discuss issues of how to enhance state and community responses to gender based violence.

On the 1st of June 2012 the Heinrich Böll Foundation in partnership with Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre held a dialogue to provide a space for engagement among non-profit organizations, social movements and trade unions in order to identify common concerns and positions in relation to gender based violence.