{"id":5963,"date":"2019-10-17T08:15:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T05:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","slug":"insights-from-research-on-how-to-break-cycle-of-violence-against-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/17\/insights-from-research-on-how-to-break-cycle-of-violence-against-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Insights From Research On How To Break Cycle Of Violence Against Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By<\/strong> <strong>Marichen\nVan Der Westhuizen<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Glynnis Dykes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to a wave of protests following a spate of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/09\/south-africa-protesters-demand-action-violence-women-190913132640008.html\">brutal\nattacks on women<\/a>, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has again\ncommitted himself to addressing this problem urgently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2019-09-05-ramaphosa-calls-for-calm-amid-protests-against-gender-based-violence-promises-action\">recent\nspeech <\/a>&nbsp;he emphasised the need for harsher sentences for the\nperpetrators of gender-based violence and femicide. He also announced an\n\u201cemergency action plan\u201d to combat the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plan, to be implemented within the next six months,\nincludes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Additional\n     funding for a host of new interventions, as well as for sexual offences\n     courts,<\/li><li>The\n     need to address patriarchal attitudes and practices that encourage\n     domination and violence,<\/li><li>Emphasis\n     on interventions that include men, youth at risk and offenders inside of\n     prisons,<\/li><li>Making\n     sure that women\u2019s rights and gender\/power relationships form part of the\n     education system,<\/li><li>Gender\n     sensitivity training for the police, prosecutors, magistrates and policy\n     makers,<\/li><li>Amending\n     laws to ensure harsher punishment for perpetrators.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The president\u2019s plan is commendable. But, previous efforts\nto address the problem have failed.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/uir.unisa.ac.za\/handle\/10500\/24986\">Research<\/a>&nbsp;on gender-based\nviolence has shown that services for victims and perpetrators are often not\navailable, or aren\u2019t accessible to people who need them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, where these are available, interventions are for\nperiods that are too short to be effective. And there is lack of sensitivity\nfrom service providers, leading to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/uir.unisa.ac.za\/handle\/10500\/24986\">secondary trauma for the\nvictims<\/a>. Finally, there has been poor alignment of the available resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These mistakes can be avoided if the president, and his\nteam, draw from research that\u2019s been done by academics on the issue of violence\nagainst women. We believe that research has a distinctive role to play because\nit gives pointers on what is needed to create long-term change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/insights-from-research-on-how-to-break-cycle-of-violence-against-women-123934\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Marichen Van Der Westhuizen &amp; Glynnis Dykes In response to a wave of protests following a spate of&nbsp;brutal attacks on women, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has again committed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}