Johannesburg 22 September: On the eve of SA Heritage Day, UN Women, Gender Links and business partners promoting gender equality today celebrated outstanding young women in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa using technology to advance their enterprises. Ten young women (first, second and third prize in each country, and two joint third prizes in South Africa)
Date: 22 September 2021 Time: South Africa: 11h00 – 13h00; Uganda & Kenya: 12h00 – 14h00 RSVP: Please fill in the form here. Sign up or login to the Southern Africa Gender Community (SGC) on www.glcop.org.za, click Cyber Dialogues and join Young Women’s Entrepreneurship Challenge Awards or join the ZOOM LINK: https://genderlinks-org-za.zoom.us/j/88631419652
Coastal Resources Centre Sinqobile Kingdom Empowerment Centre Mara Victim Empowerment Project Dorcas Page Foundation MT Foundation Incema Resoketswe Lebjane Foundation
Johannesburg: 27 August: With an average score of 62%, gender attitudes in South Africa are gradually changing for the better, but evidence of deep-seated patriarchal attitudes is still strong. For example, while 52% of women and men agree or strongly agree that “women and men should be treated the same”, 43% agree or strongly agree
Sign in or register on the Southern Africa Gender Community, click CYBER DIALOGUES and join the GPS Attitude Survey Launch or join the Zoom link: https://genderlinks-org-za.zoom.us/j/82545028597 View more on the Gender Progress Score: Gender Attitudes in Southern Africa Study
Johannesburg, 9 August: Women’s rights organisations are calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to provide sex disaggregated data on vaccine roll out in a campaign launched on Women’s Day. A petition signed by 43 Women’s Voice and Leadership partners calls on the president to “provide sex disaggregated data on vaccine roll out and all COVID-19 statistics
Date: Friday 13 August 2021 Time: 18.00 – 20.00 Where: Sunbird Capital Hotel, Mulanje Room, Lilongwe, Malawi Virtual: Please sign up or login to the Southern Africa Gender Community (SGC), click CYBER DIALOGUE and join the BAROMETER LAUNCH View the Barometer 2021 page
Johannesburg, 29 July, The Women’s Voice and Leadership South Africa (WVL-SA) welcomes the progress being made towards rolling out COVID-19 vaccines, but calls for sex disaggregated data to be made available as a matter of urgency. “Sex disaggregation is a central tenant of all data and processes in South Africa,” noted Gender Links special Advisor Colleen
Dialogue for peace in our beloved South Africa The South African Women in Dialogue (SAWID) has a long history of advocating for peace through dialogue in South Africa and beyond. This is a moment in our country’s history when we again have to raise our voices in a call for peace to prevail. We call
Johannesburg, 14 July 2021, The Women’s Voice and Leadership South Africa (WVLSA) project condemns the violence and criminal looting that is ravaging South Africa amid the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. WVLSA calls on President Cyril Ramaphosa to ensure that law and order are restored and that the vaccine
