A youth-led taskforce is driving key strategic priorities in mental health care identified during the annual Expert Gathering in Cape Town, South Africa on November 24 and 25. At the two-day event, international collaborators — including young leaders, mental health experts, government representatives and policymakers, and NGOs — worked to identify new pathways for strengthening existing systems, building workforce capacity, and improving culturally responsive assessment tools across diverse communities.

Violence against women remains one of the world’s most persistent and under-addressed human rights crises, with very little progress in two decades, according to a landmark report released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN partners.

On behalf of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), Professor Ntobeko Ntusi, President and CEO of the SAMRC, has expressed deep sadness on the untimely passing of Professor Keolebogile Shirley Motaung.

The "Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts on Global Inequality" - commissioned by President Cyril Ramaphosa for South Africa's Presidency of the G20 - today unveiled the first-ever report on inequality to the G20. The Committee is chaired by Nobel Prize-winning economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz and joined by five other leading global experts. The report follows consultation with leading economists and inequality experts across the world.

There is increasing global evidence that violence against women and violence against children are deeply interconnected. These forms of violence often co-occur in the same households, share common risk factors and are perpetuated by societal norms that legitimise or tolerate violence.