Reccomend five strategies that south Africans could put to prevent gender based violence
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• A shift in focus from seeing women (and other groups exposed to gender-
based violence) as victims to seeing them as survivors, actors and agents of
change with a strong focus on women and girls’ empowerment and agency.
• Efforts to increase women’s political participation and influence in contexts
of peace, conflicts and other humanitarian crisis. Women have rights to
participate on equal terms with men in political bodies at all levels of the
society, including in peace processes. In many countries women’s political
representation is very low, and women are often excluded from formal peace
negotiations. This has evastating consequences for the possibility to reach
a sustainable development, peace and human security.58
• Efforts to increase women’s economic empowerment that enhance women’s
bargaining power and ability to leave abusive relationships. This includes
strengthening women’s entrepreneurship and employment opportunities,
improving women’s access to land and property rights, promoting equal
sharing of unpaid care work between women and men and encouraging
universal access to quality education. While such efforts can contribute to
increased violence against women in the short term due to gender ideals
linking masculinity to the provider role, increasing women’s economic
empowerment is still crucial for longer term prevention of GBV. Women’s
economic empowerment interventions which also address gender norms
and reach couples and communities can reduce such risks.
• Efforts to increase sexual and reproductive health and rights are crucial for
preventing GBV given the close relationship between the two. Such efforts
include promotion and protection of women’s right to have control and
decide freely over matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and
reproductive health, family-planning possibilities and HIV/Aids prevention.
,Cape Town: South Africa has launched a campaign '16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence' amid rising violence against women and children. Women's Minister in the President's Office, Susan Shabangu, was present as a representative of President Jacob Zuma at the launch of the campaign in the city of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape province on Saturday. During this, he appealed to the people to stop gender based violence. He said violence cannot be accepted in the government.
Government worried about violence
Shabangu said that violence against women and children is increasing every day in South Africa, "we cannot allow ourselves to be defeated by this calamity." For this the government is now considering taking strong measures. is. Shabangu said that we have to think to stop the increasing crimes against women and children and there is a need to curb it with immediate effect.
increased incidents in schools
He said that the worst and shocking incidents of this year have happened in schools which are considered as safe places for children. But most of these incidents have happened there. This is a matter of concern. South Africa is one of the countries with the highest rates of violence against women and children. According to South African Medical Research, every eight hours in South Africa, a woman is murdered by someone close to her.
people came forward to stop the violence
The government of South Africa has declared the first priority of the police to unite and prevent violence against women and children. Shabangu said that South Africa has once again established special sexual offenses courts for speedy disposal of such cases in order to curb the increasing violence against women and children.