Facing up to the embedded social norms and prejudices, linked to practices that stretch across the continent's histories and giving rise to sexual and gender-based violence, is a necessary step in building societies where women ...
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Our 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, ...
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Gender-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 ...
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This report is the result of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) request to Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre (TLAC) to examine how current laws regulating the granting of a divorce and ...
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The Domestic Violence Act ("the DVA") was introduced as a comprehensive civil remedy for domestic abuse in 1998. Many have sought its protection since, with at least 157 391 applications for protection orders made in ...
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This discussion document serves as both a resource on the academic and comparative law treatment of the issues surrounding battered women who kill their abusive spouses and as a basis for debate on how South ...
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