ArticlesMediaGender-based ViolencePrevention of Gender Violence Requires a Multifaceted ApproachCollaboration 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 case anybody needs reminding how serious a problem GBV is in SA, a World Health Organisation study estimated that the rate of women… Read More Steven RebelloOctober 11, 2019
ArticlesMediaViolence PreventionPress Release: CSVR Warns against Militarising Cape Flats InterventionThe 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 gang crime and murders in the area. CSVR said militarising the fight against crime is not the solution that is needed in desperately resource poor… Read More CSVRJuly 26, 2019
MediaViolence PreventionPress Release: SONA Response – Urgent Steps Needed to Address Drivers of Violent CrimeThe 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 country is to deliver on the goal of halving crime in the next decade. CSVR applauds the proposed interventions on policing, investigations, drugs and gangs… Read More CSVRJune 27, 2019
MediaGender-based Violence, Violence PreventionPress Release: SONA Response – Government Plans on Violence Lack Specific DirectionThe 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 Address, President Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledges the collaborative work that is being done by civic society to address GBV, but sadly his proposed interventions fall… Read More CSVRJune 26, 2019
MediaGender-based ViolencePress Release: Feminist Civil Society Organisations Call on President and Minister of Finance to Make Good on Promises to Fund the Fight against Gender-Based ViolenceDespite 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 February 2019, there were no new allocations to combat Gender-Based Violence. In the February SONA, President Ramaphosa said that government would be “strengthening the functioning… Read More CSVRJune 20, 2019
MediaPeacebuilding, Transitional Justice, Violence PreventionPress Release: Sudanese Military Crackdown an Affront to Human Rights and Peace in SudanThe 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 action by all stakeholders to finalise the political settlement and prevent further loss of lives. The military crackdown on protesting civilians is an affront to… Read More CSVRJune 11, 2019
