HOW TO: Silence the Guns in Africa – Guide for Activists
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 […]
NEWSLETTER: November 2024 – More people shot dead than die on SA’s roads
GFSA’s November 2024 Newsletter is out.
Contents:
- More people shot dead than die on SA’s roads
- 365 Days of Activism to protect women and children
- Launch: Silencing the Guns in Africa Activism Guide
- GFSA’s 2022-2023 annual report now available
- Functional Central Firearms Registry helps stop crime
Download here.
HOW TO: Build sustainable partnerships for change
GFSA is committed to working in partnership to create a safer South Africa. To help us – and you – build and sustain collaborations for meaningful change, our youth team developed a Partner Toolkit with support from the DG Murray Trust.
If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together.
RESEARCH: Guns leading weapon used to murder women in 2020/21
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 […]
BRIEFING 1 of 2024: Record-keeping is a crime fighting tool
As gun crime in SA reaches levels not seen since the nineties, some police records show a significant spike – of between 130% and 180% – in the number of state guns since 2016.
- If accurate, what measures have been put in place to prevent loss, theft and misuse of state guns which have almost trebled in number in the […]
STATEMENT: Welcome think-tank call for gun control
An Institute for Security Studies report Strengthening the SAPS for a safer South Africa: Recommendations for police reform calls on SA’s new government to prioritise gun control to reduce violent crime nationally. According to Gareth Newham, Head of the ISS’ Justice and Violence Prevention Programme, “we have to get on top of our murder rate” which is […]
