Sonke Survey of Men's Perceptions of Gender Violence

In November 2006, Sonke Gender Justice conducted a survey with 945 men in the greater Johannesburg area on the perceptions of current responses to violence against women. The survey results indicate that men in the greater Johannesburg area hold a range of quite different perceptions about gender equality and about violence against women.

The majority of men (50.1%) felt that men should be doing more to end violence against women. While 41.4% of men surveyed said that the government is doing too much to end violence against women. 38.4% of men surveyed said government is not doing enough to end violence against women.

For more details on the survey and the results read the report.

 

Highlights

The ruling in the Malema Equality Court case will be handed down on15 March 2010
>> read more about the case

 

The final report from the MenEngage Africa Symposium is now available for download.
>> download the report

 

The Sonke case Equality Court against Julius Malema closed on 24 November 2009, with the Magistrate reserving judgement on the matter.
>> find out more about the case
>> read Sonke's case study on the Equality Courts

 

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today launched the Network of Men Leaders to Combat Violence against Women which includes two South Africans: Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Sonke Gender Justice Network co-director Dean Peacock.
>> press release