NEWS,
LAWS & LEGISLATION SURROUNDING RAPE
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Joint Monitoring Committee on the Improvement of Quality of Life and Status of Women
Parliament of the Republic of South Africa
Report on Violence against Women
May 2002
INDEX
1. Overview of the work the Committee has done to 1
Date with regard to Violence Against Women
(May 2002)
2. Appendix 1: Violence Against Women in South 7
Africa based on the public hearings held in
November 1999
(February 2000)
3. Appendix 2: Additions to the Report on the Violence Against Women Hearings - February 2001 95
4. Appendix 3: Summary Report on Violence Against 98
Women 97
(July 2001)
5. Appendix 4: Summary Report on Violence Against Women (October 2001) 127
Acknowledgements
The Committee wishes to thank the following people who helped to compile this report:
1. Melissa Fourie, who as a volunteer undertook the mammoth task of collating and compiling the report on the hearings on Violence Against Women that took place in November 1999.
2. Shereen Dawood, researcher for the ANC Study Group of the Committee, who assisted in compiling the July and October summary reports of the hearings.
3. Carmine Rustin, of the Parliamentary Research Unit, who assisted in compiling the final report on the work undertaken by the Committee on Violence against Women.
………………………………
Ms. P. Govender
Chairperson of the Joint Monitoring Committee on the Improvement of Quality of Life and Status of Women.
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