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South Africa's gender violence disaster: What's next

South Africa's move to classify gender-based violence and femicide as a national disaster raises expectations for urgent action.South Africa has a femicide rate that is five times higher than the ...
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South African women stage lie-down protest against gender-based violence ahead of G20 summit

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Participants hold hands as they lie on the ground during a gender-based violence protest at the forecourt of the botanical gardens ...
The Conversation

South Africa declared gender‑based violence a national disaster. But how will frontline workers be kept safe?

Lucé Pretorius does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
National Catholic Reporter

In South Africa's coal belt, girls disappear — and Catholic sisters quietly pull them back

As illegal mining spreads through abandoned shafts in South Africa, Catholic religious women risk their lives to rescue girls coerced into sex and early marriages in communities the state struggles to ...
The Hill

South African women stage lie-down protest against gender-based violence ahead of G20 summit

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Hundreds of women wearing black gathered in a Johannesburg park on Friday, one day before the start of the Group of 20 summit, to stage a 15-minute lie-down protest symbolizing the ...