Photo: LRC attorney Mandira Subramony with the Eastern Cape learners in their long walk to access education facilities in the province The LRC have been granted leave to intervene at the European Court of Human Rights, in a matter against the government of Hungary. The case of Amanda Kosa v Hungary challenges a possible infringement […]
Author Archives: Jean-Andre Butcher
Children's Rights, Constitution, Criminal Offences, Customary Law, Equality and Non-discrimination, Gender Rights, HIV/AIDs, Legislation
Women’s Month 2016: Child marriages in South Africa
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Aug
Aug
Child marriage affects girls in more ways than one. They are neither physically nor emotionally ready to become wives and mothers at the age that they get married. Child marriage results in girls being disempowered, dependent on their husbands and deprived of their fundamental rights to health, education and safety. The health of a child […]
Criminal Offences, Equality and Non-discrimination, Gender Rights, HIV/AIDs, LGBTI
Women’s Month 2016: What to do if you are raped
08
Aug
Aug
What is rape? Forced sexual penetration of a person’s (male or female) genital organs, anus, mouth, or any other part of the body with a penis or an object that can be used for sexual penetration. Who can be raped? Any person of any age: this includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex persons, as […]
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Aug
Aug
Empowering Victims and Survivors of Domestic Violence One Protection Order at a Time Any conversation surrounding South African women’s empowerment would be incomplete without a thorough discussion of domestic violence, as women’s inability to assert power and control over their lives, in a nation with the highest rates of domestic violence, is often the direct […]