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312, 2024

HOW TO: Silence the Guns in Africa – Guide for Activists

3 December 2024|Resources, Take Action, Uncategorised|

The African Union Silencing the Guns in Africa Activism Guide, developed in partnership with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s Mobilising Men for Feminist Peace Initiative, is a resource for activists to help silence the guns across the continent. By bridging the gap between research, activism, and policy engagement, the Guide recognises that peace across Africa cannot be […]

1010, 2024

RESEARCH: Guns leading weapon used to murder women in 2020/21

10 October 2024|Resources|

New research into femicide – the murder of women – published by the Medical Research Council shows that:
Women are most at risk of being killed by a current or ex intimate partner: 60% of women murdered in 2020/21 were intimate-partner femicides.
Gunshots were the leading weapon used to murder women in 2020/21; 2 to 3 women were shot dead every […]

1502, 2022

Gun Free Valentines: Guns don’t belong in relationships

15 February 2022|Resources|

Women in South Africa are more likely to be killed by their husband or boyfriend than by a stranger, with legal firearms in the home posing a specific risk.

Fact: Every 8 hours a woman is killed by an intimate partner in SA
Fact: A woman is more likely to be murdered by her husband or boyfriend than by a […]