tw // femicide gbv gender based violence

im tired of the selective activism on my tl so please read this thread to educate yourself on the femicide in south africa.

femicide

/ˈfɛmɪsʌɪd/

noun

the killing of a woman or girl, in particular by a man and on account of her gender.

The South African government has declared gender-based violence a national crisis.

South Africa's 1996 constitution is repeatedly explicit about gender equality, but violence towards women remains a grave issue: The country has among the highest levels of intimate partner violence in the world.

South Africa had the fourth highest female interpersonal violence death rate out of the 183 countries listed by the WHO in 2016.

51 percent of South African women have experienced violence at the hands of someone with whom they are in a relationship.

According to the most recent data from 2017/18, a woman is murdered every three hours in South Africa.

the adult women murder rate was 15.2 in 2017/18. This means that there were 15.2 murders for every 100 000 adult women in South Africa.

Nearly 3,000 women were murdered between April 2018 and March of this year. This translates to seven per day.

these were the only petitions i could find at the time:

https://www.change.org/p/shamilla-batohi-justice-for-tshego-pule?recruiter=1051638055&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_abi&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&recruited_by_id=dab6c220-6701-11ea-97ec-1f46b1f9bb0f

https://www.change.org/p/south-africa-minister-of-police-gbv-violation-of-women-s-rights-to-be-prioritized-by-the-sa-government-leaders-69b964f8-c1f5-4a34-b9fb-593fac0509e4

this thread goes into detail about the cases of femicide in SA: https://twitter.com/niallforpresi20/status/1290189319676690432?s=19