Gender-based Violence

Covid-19 has caused devastation in communities, and this has disproportionately affected women. This impact on women, particularly their economic status and vulnerability to violence, has been brought home by the release in the last week ...

Even before the pandemic, women carried an unequal burden of social, cultural and economic ills. The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated this, with the effects of lockdown disproportionately affecting women, write Charlotte Motsoari and Amina Mwaikambo ...

On paper, the decline in reported gender-based violence (GBV) crimes looks like good news. The reality on the ground is very different: many women remain locked down with their abusers during the Covid-19 pandemic, unable ...

One confirmed case of Covid-19 is one too many; one confirmed case of gender-based violence is one too many. Can we simultaneously rid the country of both pandemics? President Cyril Ramaphosa has dealt with the Covid-19 ...

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 ...