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Spotlight on Nazma Hendricks

18th September 2025/by Sino

Protecting Children is Everyone’s Responsibility

2nd June 2025/by Sino

A Letter from a Survivor

29th April 2022/by Sino

Innovation from the inside out

22nd March 2022/by Sino

Access to Post Rape Care, Everywhere

17th February 2022/by Sino

10 Things Your Rape Crisis Counsellor Wants You To Know

16th September 2021/by Sino

RSJC Third National Roundtable

2nd September 2021/by Sino

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE VICTIM SUPPORT SERVICES BILL

5th July 2021/by Sino

Storytelling: How the #SurvivorSeries was Born

30th April 2021/by Sino

Sexual Offences Court Monitoring Results: Khayelitsha Court

2nd November 2020/by Sino

Know Your Rights – Your Rights As A Survivor

9th October 2020/by Sino

The Truth About The Victim Support Services Bill

9th September 2020/by Sino

Turning Collective Outrage into Collective Action: Fundraising During a Pandemic

31st August 2020/by Sino

A JOURNEY TOWARDS INCLUSIVE COMMUNICATIONS

28th July 2020/by Sino

Being a black woman can be quite a phenomenon

24th June 2020/by Sino

Self-Care during COVID-19

17th June 2020/by Sino

‘At the beginning, it wasn’t called feminism. It was called an attitude problem.’

26th May 2020/by Sino

Dreams are not all dreamy

14th May 2020/by Sino

Access to justice in times of uncertainty

9th April 2020/by Sino

Dealing with recovering from trauma during COVID-19 lockdown

2nd April 2020/by Sino

What is a Thuthuzela Care Centre?

2nd April 2020/by Sino

A summary of the Sexual Offences Regulations

18th March 2020/by Sino

Sexual Offences Courts Regulations

4th March 2020/by Sino

PRESS RELEASE: New sexual offences court due to be opened in Bredasdorp on 7 February.

6th February 2020/by Sino

PRESS RELEASE: Sexual offences courts officially signed into regulation

6th February 2020/by Sino

Building a Culture of Consent

26th September 2019/by Sino

PRESS RELEASE: Regulations relating to Sexual Offences Courts to be Gazetted soon

20th September 2019/by Sino

Claiming the Right to Health after Rape

11th September 2019/by Sino

PRESS STATEMENT: President fails to announce funding for GBV response

6th September 2019/by Sino

In These Moments

4th September 2019/by Sino

Part 4: The Future of Sexual Offences Courts in South Africa

22nd August 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Who Is In Charge of My Health?

29th July 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Part 3: Sexual Offences Courts Rollout Stops and Restarts

8th July 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Part 2: The Roll Out of the First Sexual Offences Courts

8th July 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Part 1: The History of Sexual Offences Courts in South Africa

8th July 2019/by rapecrisisblog

The Best Internship Ever: Reflections on My Time with Rape Crisis

4th July 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Join the Journey

25th June 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Factors that influence rape case attrition

19th June 2019/by rapecrisisblog

From reporting to trial – how rape cases fall through the cracks.

19th June 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Tools for Writers

30th May 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Phases of Recovery

28th May 2019/by Sino

Principles of Empowerment

28th May 2019/by Sino

Rape Trauma Syndrome (RTS)

23rd May 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Court Room Architecture as Change

25th April 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Sorry, we have no space for rape apologists.

11th April 2019/by rapecrisisblog

The silent rape of sex workers

2nd April 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Rape Crisis Weekend Away

25th March 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Why #CSW63 Matters

19th March 2019/by rapecrisisblog

The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

18th March 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Feminist Leadership

7th March 2019/by rapecrisisblog

The Roles of Feminism

3rd March 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Get Involved Now.

25th February 2019/by zaheed

A new Rape Crisis campaign hits close to home.

21st February 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Just Another Feminist [Valentines] Day

13th February 2019/by Sino

PRESS RELEASE: SONA 2019

8th February 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Ramaphosa’s SONA and the issue of gender-based violence

7th February 2019/by rapecrisisblog

I Believe Her: On the Power of Rape Survivors’ Voices

17th January 2019/by rapecrisisblog

How to Write About Rape

14th January 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Engaging Men on Rape

8th January 2019/by rapecrisisblog

Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault

24th December 2018/by rapecrisisblog

Helpline & Emergency Numbers

20th December 2018/by rapecrisisblog

A Toolkit to Support Rape Survivors

11th December 2018/by rapecrisisblog

Joining Communities Fighting Violence Against Women

26th November 2018/by rapecrisisblog

What is Rape?

20th November 2018/by rapecrisisblog

How to talk about rape

13th November 2018/by rapecrisisblog

The Rape Survivors Justice Campaign

2nd November 2018/by rapecrisisblog

Making strides in fighting for sexual offences courts

10th October 2018/by rapecrisisblog

Progress at the Khayelitsha court

1st October 2018/by rapecrisisblog

What does Women’s Day mean for us?

9th August 2018/by rapecrisisblog

The real numbers on sexual offences

7th August 2018/by rapecrisisblog

What makes up a sexual offences court

10th July 2018/by rapecrisisblog

How to donate intelligently

9th July 2018/by rapecrisisblog

Why people make a difference to the experience of survivors

28th June 2018/by rapecrisisblog

Comparing numbers on sexual offences statistics

12th June 2018/by rapecrisisblog

Rape from the courts perspective

29th May 2018/by rapecrisisblog

The Gender-Wage Gap

22nd May 2018/by rapecrisisblog

Turning big ideas into action in 2018

17th May 2018/by rapecrisisblog

Sharing insight to develop better court models

14th May 2018/by rapecrisisblog

Working towards making sexual offences courts a reality

10th April 2018/by rapecrisisblog

Raising awareness of the importance of sexual offences courts

4th April 2018/by rapecrisisblog

Does Rape Matter?

27th March 2018/by rapecrisisblog

A Letter to the President 2.0

19th March 2018/by rapecrisisblog

A Letter to the President

9th March 2018/by rapecrisisblog

Let’s start a chain reaction on International Women’s Day

7th March 2018/by rapecrisisblog

Tax payers that donate qualify for a tax deduction

7th February 2018/by rapecrisisblog

16 Days of Noise

12th December 2017/by Sino

Women: listen to your inner voice and act

6th December 2017/by Sino

#NotOurLeaders

24th November 2017/by Sino

Take Action If You Said #MeToo

21st November 2017/by Sino

Be a Proud Slacktivist this 16 Days

7th November 2017/by Sino

Section 55 What??

31st October 2017/by Sino

Support Thuthuzela Care Centres #EnditNow

26th October 2017/by Sino

On #MeToo

24th October 2017/by Sino

The numbers of change: If you don’t like numbers, then this blog is for you

16th October 2017/by Sino

Can you help someone recover from the trauma of rape? Yes you can.

3rd October 2017/by Sino

National Wills Week in September

7th September 2017/by Sino

Women’s Month: A Sham

24th August 2017/by Sino

The Journey of a Counsellor

15th August 2017/by Sino

From University to Cape Town: 10 Weeks Later

4th August 2017/by Sino

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