Press Release: CSVR Condemns the Police Brutality in Responding to the Violent Service Delivery Protests in Tembisa
The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation strongly condemns the heavy handedness of the South African Police and law enforcement agencies, particularly the use of live ammunition to control the protesters in Tembisa ...
Read MoreOur communities are the site of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and femicide. When these cases occur, it is communities that reel from such incidents and victims and perpetrators are often members of the community, ...
Read MoreGender-based violence in South Africa is a scourge. At the heart of it is the impact of imbalanced power relations at individual and societal levels and inequities that are entrenched in family, communal and social ...
Read MoreSexual Violence as a Weapon of War against Men and LGBTQI+ People is Severely Underestimated and Overlooked
Among the worst crimes of conflict are the scourge of rape and sexual violations as weapons of war. Without deprioritising attention to women and girls, equal acknowledgement must be given to men and boys and/including ...
Read MoreDuring transitions to peace and democracy across various African countries, measures have been introduced to hold perpetrators accountable and provide reparations to victims. Corporate accountability and redress for corporate victims have however been a missing ...
Read MoreTen years have passed since the Marikana Massacre on 16 August 2022. Yet we are still not close to securing full reparations for victims. The process of civil claims, prosecutions, and support services has been ...
Read MoreRamaphosa Must Tell G7 — You've Supported Victims of Ukraine War, Now Support Those in Africa
Just as G7 hosts, Germany, and its European counterparts benefited from Marshall Plan investment after the second world war, the richest countries must now support global recovery by investing in four key areas. When President of ...
Read More1994: The euphoria, the hopes, the dreams, the answered prayers, and finally, the struggle was worth it. Democratic South Africa brought hopes and dreams that black South Africans were finally going to be recognised. Our ...
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