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What Works To Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls

What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls is an innovative global programme working in 13 countries across the world building the evidence base on What Works to prevent violence in low-middle income settings.

Responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women. WHO clinical and policy guidelines

Women who have been subjected to violence often seek health care, including for their injuries, even if they do not disclose the associated abuse or violence. A health-care provider is likely to be the first professional contact for survivors of intimate partner violence or sexual assault. Statistics show that abused women use health-care services more than non-abused women do. They also identify health-care providers as the professionals they would most trust with disclosure of abuse.

Global and regional estimates of violence against women: Prevalence and health effects of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence

Report published through a partnership between the South African Medical Research Council, the World Health Organization and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.  

Every eight hours: Intimate femicide in South Africa 10 years later!

The killing of a woman by her partner is the most extreme consequence of intimate partner violence. Monitoring such violence provides insights on the impact of laws, policies and programs for gender-based violence prevention. In this research brief we compare the results  of two South African national studies that described prevalence and patterns of female homicide and intimate femicide in 1999 and 2009. The study showed a decrease of female homicides overall as well as for intimate femicides but the decrease for intimates was at a  lower rate.

Child homicide patterns in South Africa: Is there a link to child abuse?

The South African Constitution’s Bill of Rights provides children the right to care and protection, yet thousands of children experience abuse daily (physical/sexual and psychological) (1). Not much is known about child homicides in South Africa. Only one South African  study using data from the National Injury Mortality Surveillance System (NIMSS) for four urban areas among 0-14 year olds report homicide rates following similar patterns to global rates, with the highest rate among young male children aged 0-4 years (2).

Strengthening Research and Action on Gender-based Violence in Africa

Gender-based violence (GBV) and especially violence against women has gained international recognition as a grave social and human rights concern affecting virtually all societies. Progress in addressing GBV can be attributed in large part to groundbreaking studies, such as the World Health Organiza-tion (WHO) Multi-Country Study on Domestic Violence and Women’s Health,1 which provide evidence needed to advocate for strong laws and policies and to develop locally relevant programs.

The war @ home: Preliminary findings of the Gauteng Gender Violence Prevalence Study

Over half the women of Gauteng (51.2%) have experienced some form of violence (emotional, economic, physical or sexual) in their lifetime and 78.3% of men in the province admit to perpetrating some form of violence against women.

Respect 4 U

What is Respect 4 U?

Respect 4 U is an intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention programme aimed at young adolescents. The 17-lesson programme was originally designed for implementation in Grade 8 Life Orientation classes.

Preventing Rape and Violence in South Africa: Call for Leadership in a New Agenda for Action

South Africa faces a globally unprecedented problem of violence against women and girls, as well as men and boys, which is undermining our national development and hindering our achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.  With rates of homicide, rape, and childhood and domestic violence well above those of comparable other countries, the problem of violence is undermining our nation’s health and economic and social development.

Understanding Men's Health and Use of Violence: Interface of Rape and HIV In South Africa

South Africa has one of the highest rates of rape reported to the police in the world and the largest number of people living with HIV. The rate of rape perpetration is not known because only a small proportion of rapes are reported to the police. There is considerable concern about the links between these two problems. Obviously HIV can be transmitted in the course of rape and this compounds the human rights violation of the rape.

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