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Callas Foundation’s Commitment to Supporting GBV Survivors: A Year-Round Mission

By Rachel Mohamed Lynette Dixon, an advocate and representative of the Callas Foundation, has reaffirmed the organization’s dedication to addressing gender-based violence (GBV) beyond the annual 16 Days of Activism campaign. Speaking about the pervasive impact of GBV, Dixon emphasized the importance of consistent efforts to support survivors and raise awareness throughout the year. “GBV is not an issue confined to a particular timeframe; it is a social challenge we […]

2 January 2025

Local

Outrage at learner seen hurling insults at teacher

The education sector and the community at Maphophe near Malamulele in Limpopo have expressed shock following the circulation of cellphone footage reportedly showing a learner hurling insults at a teacher. The video, believed to have been shot at Basopa Secondary School at the village, shows a boy ridiculing his teacher’s hairstyle, to the amusement of his peers. The incident reportedly happened in August 2022. Community members at Maphophe have described […]

12 February 2023

Local

Children raped by own parents ‘often feel guilty and don’t report abusers’

Children being raped by their own parents has become a growing pattern in South Africa, but there might be many more unreported cases because many children suffer in silence, says a psychologist. Teddy Bear Clinic for abused children director and psychologist Dr Shaheda Omar told TimesLIVE that some children who were raped by their parents were reluctant to report them. This was because some minors feared the arrest of their parents […]

2 February 2023

International

Amnesty raises alarm for Iran protesters at risk of execution

Amnesty International has warned that many young Iranians, including teenagers, detained over their participation in anti-government protests, are at risk of execution and have been tortured, Bloomberg reported yesterday. The London-based rights watchdog urged Iran to immediately overturn the death sentences issued against three demonstrators aged 18, 19 and 31, after court sessions that lasted less than an hour. Widespread protests have erupted in Iran since mid-September, following the death of 22-year-old […]

30 January 2023

Local

Continued violence against children is an indictment on SA society- WC Child Commissioner

LOCAL The Commissioner for Children in the Western Cape, Christina Nomdo, says the continued violence against children is an indictment on South African society. This after the bodies of two children, aged four and eight, were discovered in separate incidents on Monday. Tamia Botha’s body was found at a nearby school yard in Paarl East while the body of an eight-year-old boy was found at Siqalo Informal settlement in Philippi. […]

28 September 2022

Local

MPs hear tales of abuse of farm dwellers by farmers, mines

A delegation of parliamentarians heard allegations that some farmers in Mpumalanga banned farm dwellers from keeping livestock, poisoned water and grazing lands, shot people and stole animals belonging to the farm dwellers. There were also of hundreds of families in the province who could be evicted from their land by mining companies and farmers. The delegation, which visited the province at the weekend, wants these allegations of abuse, forced evictions […]

31 May 2022

Local

Social Development launches National Child Protection Week campaign

LOCAL The Department of Social Development has launched the week-long campaign in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape. This coming week marks National Child Protection Week in South Africa. This year, the focus will be on teenage pregnancy which saw a spike, during the Covid-19 period, of teenagers giving birth in 2021. The National Child Protection Week (CPW) is observed in South Africa annually to raise awareness about the rights of children as articulated in […]

30 May 2022

International News

Over 250,000 abused in New Zealand’s state and faith-based care

Up to a quarter of a million children, young people and vulnerable adults were abused in New Zealand’s faith-based and state care institutions in the past several decades, a public inquiry revealed on Wednesday. An interim report by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into historical abuse of children in state care estimated that up to 256,000 people were abused between 1950 and 2019. This accounts for almost 40 percent of […]

16 December 2020

International News

Lebanese army denies beating, electrocuting detained protesters

A senior Lebanese army source has denied that the military tortured detainees who said they were beaten with sticks and electrocuted after their arrest during riots last week. The seven detainees in question were arrested by the army intelligence on Wednesday in the southern port city of Sidon. That night, angry protesters took to the streets across the country over the rapid depreciation of the local currency. Some threw rocks […]

5 May 2020

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