Collaboration across different government departments is critical in the battle against gender-based violence (GBV). Recent civil society efforts to work with the government to address GBV demonstrate both the challenges and opportunities provided by such collaboration. In ...
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The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) has warned that the deployment of the South African army for public security in the Cape Flats is not the solution to the soaring, violent ...
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The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) welcomes President Cyril Ramaphosa's pledge to tackle crime but believes that more needs to be done to address the drivers of violent crime if the ...
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The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) bemoans government's failure to explicitly provide specific direction and urgent solutions needed to address the Gender Based Violence (GBV) crisis. In his State of the Nation ...
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Press Release: Feminist Civil Society Organisations Call on President and Minister of Finance to Make Good on Promises to Fund the Fight against Gender-Based Violence
Despite President Cyril Ramaphosa's pronouncements in the February 2019 State of the Nation Address (SONA) that funding would be allocated to combat Gender-Based Violence, when Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni, delivered his budget speech on 20 ...
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The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) is alarmed by the violent crackdown in Sudan which has dealt a severe blow to peace efforts in the country and is calling for immediate ...
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The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) has warned that urgent action needs to be taken to tackle violence in schools, describing the recent fatal stabbing of a student outside a school ...
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