TAG: South Africa
Protect Trans Kids: Bar Dr Sybrand de Vaal from psychiatric practice
Investigate Dr. Sybrand de Vaal with regards to promoting harmful psychiatric practices with respect to Trans (including non-binary) children. This includes: * Examine his competency to practice as a registered health professional; * Restrict his practice in relation to where judgement is required and influences his biases; and * In particular, affirm that he should […]
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To drink or not to drink – that is not the question: Alcohol consumption in India and South Africa in the time of COVID 19
by Dr. Debjyoti Ghosh* “That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.” ― Charles Bukowski, “Women” For thousands of […]
Read moreSexual and Reproductive Justice Coalition 2017 Annual Report
The first half of 2017 has been a busy and growthful time for the SRJC. We have been storming, norming and forming a working team that works together, learning through working to each other’s strengths and filling in gaps where needed. We have also had to respond to the demand for our presence in the […]
Read moreResearch Report for Transilience Project on Violence against Transgender Women in South Africa 2014
The Research Report for Transilience Project on Violence against Transgender Women 2014 offers relevant qualitative data to understand the discrimination and violence faced by transgender community in different parts of South African society.
Read moreZanele Muholi: From SPW Newsletter nº 8 to New York Times
In SPW Newsletter nº8 (2010), we higlighted Zanele Muholi’s artwork about queer identities in South Africa. By that time, the Minister of Arts and Culture slashed a piece of art featuring lesbian black couples as “immoral” and “pornographic . Five years later, Muholi’s work is under spot on New York Times’s website. Click here to read […]
Read moreSex Work Digest – Issue 13
The 13th issue of NSWP’s quarterly newsletter ‘Sex Work Digest’ covers the period July – September 2015. Features in this issue include: Decriminalisation updates from Scotland, New South Wales & South Africa; the raid at Rentboy.com; Amnesty International’s resolution on sex work; and the WHO early release guideline on ART and PrEP. Click here to […]
Read more‘I am someone, like everyone else’: A story about a migrant sex worker in Johannesburg, South Africa
Photo: Elsa Oliveira, taken at were Sisonke Sex Worker March, held on March 7, 2013, In Johannesburg A story told by Vanessa Klass1 to Elsa Oliveira It was after I gave birth to my daughter in 1999 that I began to work as a sex worker in Hillbrow 2, an inner-city suburb of Johannesburg. I […]
Read moreUnpacking Malawi Special Law Commission final review’ findings and recommendations on abortion law
The current position of the law is that abortion is illegal in Malawi except where it is performed to save the life of the pregnant woman through a surgical operation. The Special Law Commission (SLC) resolved and agreed that abortion law in Malawi should be liberalized (that is, conditional relaxation of the restrictions) as opposed […]
Read moreAfrica Has Its First Black, Out Gay Member Of Parliament
Take a look at BuzzFeed‘s article about Zakhele Mbhele, the Africa’s first out gay black MP to join South Africa’s parliament.
Read moreThe Constitutional Court of South Africa decided that two sections of the Criminal Law Amendment Act are unconstitutional
The Constitutional Court of South Africa decided that two sections of the Criminal Law Amendment Act are unconstitutional. The measeures were intended to criminalise consensual sexual conduct between children. Read more about it.
Read moreTransgender ID a hostile affair
Read article about the situation of trans people in South Africa and the obstacles that they face regarding the identification country system. Here.
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