GBVF national council welcomed, but calls for its effectiveness in tackling scourge
The 2022 bill emanates from the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) produced by the interim steering committee established in April 2019. Picture: Leon Lestrade / Independent Newspapers Cape Town – Anti-gender based violence and...Latest Crime Statistics in South Africa
Latest Crime Statistics Update for South Africa 🚨 The recently presented quarterly crime statistics report to the parliament’s portfolio committee on police has unveiled some alarming trends for the period between 1 January and 31 March 2023. It is with deep...Challenging The Laws Which Serve To Silence Victims Of Sexual Violence And Their Supporters
The Women’s Legal Centre challenges the constitutionality of certain provisions of the Criminal Procedure Act which places a prohibition on the publication of any information relating to persons accused of sexual offences before the accused has pleaded to the charges.