READERS
SPEAKOUT
DATA
ON RAPE
28 September 2000
From:
MOEGAMAD GANIEF
I am doing an project in Forecasting on the patterns of Rape reported
in South Africa. I have managed to obtain monthly data of reported rape
cases since 1994. However, this data set is to small for the analysis
I need to perform. I would appreciate if you could provide me with more
data (say from 1990). If you do not have these data, could you please
provide me with detail on where I can find such data.
Thank
you
Ms Shahiem Ganief (ph.d)
Dept Math & Applied Math
Univ of the Western Cape
Private Bag x17
Bellville
77535
South Africa
fax ph +27 +21 9593017(w)
+27 +21 6961251(h)
+27 +21 9592577(w)
e-mail: mganief@uwc.ac.za
DESIRWITH AIDS BABIES
28 September 2000E
TO WORK
I am a 24 year old college-educated American woman interested in volunteering in South Africa, preferably at an orphanage for babies with HIV/full-blown AIDS.
If you happen to know of any orphanages, and can recommend any that would be able to accomodate an international volunteer, please send me a list or directory, indicating their address, e-mail, or website.
Thank
you kindly!
Sincerely,
Emily E. Cody
NIKE'S OFFENSIVE OLYMPICS COMMERCIAL
23 September 2000
During the Olympics opening ceremony television viewers saw a Nike ad of a woman being attacked and chased through her home by a man wielding a chain saw - it has seen international viewer outrage.
The following is it's response to one letter, followed by a letter from Charlene Smith, we encourage you to write to Nike and express your concern too, their email address is: swoosh@custhelp.com
Nike's response:
Thank you for sharing with Nike your views on the new "Why Sport?" television ad titled "Horror."
It has generated a very large and spirited viewer response, with consumers weighing in both positively and negatively. The intent of this ad was certainly not to offend or make light of violence, and if you have been offended by the ad, we sincerely apologize.
Our goal was to clearly parody classic cinematic moments, in this particular case the extremely popular "horror" movies, to show how the benefits of being physically fit can appear unexpectedly in unusual situations. In the case of Suzy Hamilton, the US Olympian who appears in "Horror," she is the victor, not the victim. Many of our consumers have let us know they understand the ad and enjoyed it. Many others have let us know that they do not care for it at all.
The NBC networks have elected to discontinue airing this ad during the Olympic broadcasts.
Sincerely,
Nike USA Consumer Affairs
OLYMPICS HORROR ADVERT
23 September 2000
TO NIKE:
As a South African rape survivor I need to tell you how disgusted I was
by your ad for the Olympics - what possessed Nike to use an ad that made
light of the absolute terror women who are attacked experienced?
Violence against women is rising all around the world. I expect Nike to make a sizeable contribution to anti-violence efforts to show that it had no bad intent against women - and on this year's day of no-violence against women. I expect Nike to call on men, young men in particular not to run away from issues of sexual violence but to take a stand against sexual violence.
Your conduct has been outrageous and I hope the ad has been pulled in perpetuity. If it is screened in South Africa I can tell you it will be my pleasure to personally lead a boycott of Nike products.
Charlene Smith
SITE
PROMPTS INVOLVEMENT
18/09/2000
Hello:
Last night I saw an episode of SexTV here in Toronto which focused on
your organization and the subject of rape in general in South Africa.
Being pretty uninformed at the start, I was shocked by the statistics and personal stories presented. Today I am moved to email you and tell you how impressed I am at the work your organization has undertaken and to let you know that I intend to look at this issue here at home and somehow involve myself .
Really, I guess, this is to let you know that your work and dedication IS having an effect and on a global scale.
Best of luck
in your continued efforts.
Kevin Heffernan
Toronto, Canada
SEWA,
Nepal
12/09/2000
Greetings from Nepal. Let's introduce our self. Kalikot is one of the most remote districts of Nepal and it is situated at north-western part (mountain region) of the country. This district is untouchable with motor road facilities. SEWA (Social Empowerment and Welfare Academy) is a Nepali NGO established in July 1995 as a volunteer organization of most remote area. SEWA started literacy classes, skill training activities, health and hygiene activities and income-generating program.
We has been served to poor people of remote area continue for three years. Unfortunately, Netherlands government decided to dismiss that types financial support to Nepal from December 1999. After that accidents SEWA s community empowerment activities are closed from last of the February 2000 due to financial problem. SEWA is seeking for long term donor for HIV-AIDS awareness raising program. HIV-AIDS cases are increasing day to day in Nepal. According to government report, age group of high school /collage level peoples are second highest infected age group in Nepal. SEWA decided to work voluntarily among the high school/collage students for HIV-AIDS awareness raising through peer education.SEWA have plan and curriculum for School Peer Educator training. SEWA want train 4-5 students per institute as peer educator leaders. But we have need US$ 500 training cost (except resource person fee) per month. We have team speed, good network, ideas, skill and we are committed for work, but we have no money. So, SEWA is looking for School Peer Educator training program donor agency/individual. Who are interested to save Nepali new generation from black hole of HIV-AIDS providing training cost.
Could you and your organization please support to our organization? or could you please help us for reach to donor? If yes, please call us for detail information and a proposal and we will send as soon as possible. SEWA and it's target area's people will be pleased with you for your kindly support. We will be waiting for your any response. Thank you very much.
Sincerely, Manarup Shahi Chairperson SEWA
Email
mrnp@wlink.com.np
Post Box-13905 Kathmandu, Nepal
MORE
INFORMATION ABOUT SEWA
We have no website even not own email address. We are using our friends
personal email. Only we have a slow old (Pentium I)computer. We have no
money for buying anew computer and bearing email cost. So I am very sorry
!
Here is detail
information for you about our School Peer Educator training.
SEWA (Social Empowerment and Welfare Academy) is a Nepali NGO. SEWA was
established in July 1995 as a volunteer organization of most remote area.
It was registered and affiliated with Social Welfare Council Nepal in
1996. After that, SEWA has awarded by government grant for one year, due
to its hard work in most remote part of country. After one year serving
SNV Nepal (a Netherlands INGO) kindly offered financial support for two
years. SEWA accepted that offer with pleased. Then our team had select
two most backward VDCs (Village Development Committee) out of 30 VDCs
of Kalikot district. After that selection SEWA had started the literacy
classes, skill training activities, health and hygiene activities and
income-generating program. We has been served to poor people of remote
area continue for three years. SEWA is seeking long term donor for HIV-AIDS/STI
awareness raising program.
After this training they will have a written plan for their own school/college and share the message among their friends. After Three months of training one day's follow up and review meeting will arrange for them. Every P Educator will share the progress and identified problems report in meeting. Possible problem solving methods will be seeking and find in meeting. After this meeting PE will be more confident and refresh for their HIV-AIDS/STI PE job.
According to our plan SEWA will arrange 5 days a training per month for School Peer Educator. Twenty students (10 female and 10 male ) from four School/Collage will be participate in every training.More participatory and less theory and more practical method will use in training to internalize the message. For this US$ 25/ trainee will need for Secretariat, Stationery, Training hall Charge, Tea, Education Materials, transportation charge and mise. Resource person will provide by SEWA in free of cost. Total estimated cost per training in each month is required US$ 500. SEWA is looking for School Peer Educator training program donor agency/individual. Who are interested to save Nepali new generation from black hole of HIV-AIDS providing training cost. Could you and your organization please support to our organization? or could you please help us for reach to donor?
If you wants more information, proposal or any comments/ advice,please donot hesitate to ask us by email or postal address and we will send as soon as possible. SEWA is waiting for your response.
Thank you
very much.
Sincerely
Manarup Shahi
Chairperson
SEWA
Kathmandu
Nepal
Post Box-13905
Email mrnp@wlink.com.np
THANKS
FOR SITE
23/08/2000
To all the
remarkable people who created this site,
I was reading my daily fix of the Mail and Guardian, when I stumbled on
your link they have posted on their site. I have just spent the whole
morning reading "speakout" from start to finish, and may I say how moved,
touched, proud and positive it has made me feel. Proud that there are
such brave and talented people in our country who are making the difference
to other's lives, positive that women (and some men) are taking a stand
against this dreadful crime that threatens all of us.
To all those who have survived rape and told their stories here, I don't know you, but I feel priviledged that you have let me share your ordeals. You have taught me so much, in one morning. You are brave almost beyond my imagining. Well done to everybody involved, may this web resource go from strength to strength. My wish is that we may one day be in the position where web sites such as these become completely unneccesary.
Love, Jan Weintrob
THANKS
FOR SITE
20/08/2000
Thank you
for this site.
We need sites, adverts, discussions and TV programmes to let women know
they are not alone when they are raped or abused. We need them to show
society that we will not accept this violence.
My sister was killed by her husband. My mother-in-law wants us to forgive
him and is trying to get her deceased daughter's children to see their
abusive father. Denial runs very very deep and prevents her from having
to deal with the part we all played in keeping quiet when we knew there
was a problem. It saves her from the most traumatic part of all, the acknowledgement
that the way she raised her child included teaching her that there are
some (male) behaviours that should not be spoken about but quietly accepted.
Pray for
us.
Thank you "Maureen"
CHEMICAL
CASTRATION
19.07.2000
Ek is 'n
finale jaar LLB student, en doen my skripsie oor Chemies kastrasie.
Ek is ten gunste daarvan dat dit by Suid-Afrikaanse wetgewing ingesluit word. Maar ek kry geen inligting oor die stand daarvan in die reg nie. Kan iemand asb. vir my verdere inligting e-mail aangaande die huidige regsposisie in ons reg.
Baie
dankie
Leandra: leandravanwijk@hotmail.com
THE
UNITED NATIONS LOOKS AT SEXUAL ABUSE, HIV AND EDUCATION - AND ASKS FOR
HELP
17/07/2000
From: Carol
Coombe, Pretoria, South Africa
I am preparing a report on HIV/AIDS and the education sector in South Africa for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. I have worked for more than 30 years in education management and planning in Southern Africa, and ever since the start of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Zambia 20 years ago, have been increasingly concerned about the long-term impact of HIV/AIDS on our schools, communities, children and teachers, particularly female staff.
We have gathered important (and for some of us, much new) information - during work on girls' education in Zambia for UNICEF for example - about levels of (1) homosexuality/bisexuality, NOT just among younger age cadres of boys, prisoners, soldiers, single-hostel miners etc (2) incest which, given the traditional place of women and girls in the family, continues to prevail, particularly but not only, in rural areas, and (3) child abuse which seems to be on the increase with the pandemic.
The central issues for me are the implications these practices have for addressing the impact of HIV/AIDS on education systems. We think that (1) and (2) are customarily long-standing, but little understood among the research community, although Isaac Schapera implied it 30 years ago in his work on traditional cultures in the region. We think that (3) might be coming into focus partly because of better reporting by welfare services (in South Africa, for example), or more probably because it is on the increase as men think that either they can avoid AIDS by having sex with a child, or they can be cured if they are already infected (one way, and fathers in another), and the issue of responsibility of each individual for choosing how to behave.
What about networking with those who are concerned with violence against women and children, particularly in the day of AIDS when sexual abuse or sexual harassment may in effect literally constitute murder?
If you would like to read an abridged version of Carol's report click here.
SPEAKOUT AGREES WITH CAROL COOMBES AND IS BEGINNING A READERS SPEAKOUT SECTION - WHICH IF WE CAN ACCESS FUNDS WILL DEVELOP INTO A CHAT SECTION FOR DISCUSSING ISSUES AROUND SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND HIV/AIDS. THE PURPOSE OF SPEAKOUT HAS ALWAYS BEEN NOT ONLY TO INFORM OURSELVES AND OTHERS OF THESE CRITICAL ISSUES, BUT TO ADD TO THE DEBATE TO HARNESS NEW THINKING AND RESEARCH SO THAT WE CAN STOP SSEXUAL VIOLENCE AND HIV/AIDS. OUR GOAL IS NOT REDUCTION - BUT ENDING SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND AIDS. PLEASE LET US HAVE YOUR COMMENTS AND RESEARCH AT speakout@global.co.za
REPRODUCTIVE
HEALTH MATTERS
FROM: Marge
Berer
Reproductive Health Matters -- Vol 9. No. 17, May 2001
Theme: By
and for young women
I am pleased to announce a call for papers for the next issue of the journal
Reproductive Health Matters (RHM).
RHM is an international, peer-reviewed journal that comes out twice a year in English, with abstracts also in French and Spanish (192pp per issue). The May 2001 issue will focus on sexual health and reproductive health and rights issues of particular relevance to young women around the world. We are seeking submissions that are: written by young women, co-authored with young women and/or are about young women -- papers that would be of interest to young women as well as to those of us who are not so young.
Please write to the editor with a proposal for a paper (send a 200-300 word summary). Submissions are due on 1 December 2000 but will be accepted into the first part of January 2001 (and sometimes a tiny bit later -- by arrangment with the editor). Maximum word limit is 5000 words.
Submissions
and queries about submissions should be sent to: Marge Berer, Editor RHMjournal@compuserve.com
Orders for sample copies of the journal, information on all RHM publications and subscriptions and other orders to: E-MAIL: jnl.orders@blacksci.org.uk WEBSITE: www.blackwell-science.com/rhm
With best
wishes,
Marge Berer, Editor
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