Women's support Centre

 
Masimanyane Women's Support Centre is a non-profit international women's organisation based in East London, South Africa. With a specific focus on violence against women, sexual and reproductive health and rights and the gendered nature of HIV and Aids, we aim to build the capacity of women and human rights advocates to claim and realise women's human rights. This is done through the development of new knowledge and the utilisation of a rights-based approach.
To find out more about Masimanyane's gender and human rights work, phone us on 043 743 9169.

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26 April 2013
EC women receive training in Cape Town

By Shamin Chibba

With the help of the French Embassy, Masimanyane had taken 12 women from the Eastern Cape to Cape Town for a 7-day advocacy training programme.

The women were to be educated on the history of human rights in South Africa and the state of human rights as it is now.

Nonkosi Mntu, one of Masimanyane’s facilitators on the trip, said that one of the lessons taught was on how to deal with the challenges of being a counsellor.

26 April 2013
Dimbaza counsellor in Detroit for training

By Shamin Chibba

African American leader in the mid-1800s, Booker T. Washington once said: “Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”

2 April 2013
Masimanyane contributes to CSW document

By Shamin Chibba

Conservative governments were once again the thorn in the side at the 57th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

More than 6000 women gathered at the United Nations in New York – the largest attendance in the event’s history – to discuss the global agenda and the event’s theme: violence against women.

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16 November 2012
Poem - All That I Ask

The following poem was written by Azola Benita Dorothea Bobo, a former Human Rights Club member. She is still using the knowledge she gained from Masimanyane to express herself. With 16 Days of Activism approaching, it is fitting that one of her poems can be read right here on the Masimanyane website.

 

All That I Ask

by Azola Benita Dorothea Bobo

 

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Documents
Anti-Rape Strategy for the Eastern Cape

Masimanyane Women’s Support Centre would like to thank this esteemed committee for the opportunity to share with you our ideas on an Any rape strategy for the Eastern Cape. As an NGO working to end gender based violence and having served more than 14000 women in 2012 alone, we believe that we have gained some insight into what is needed in an anti-rape strategy.

 

To read the rest of the strategy, click HERE
Report by Lou-May Immelman on Masimanyane's support services to women and girls who experiences gender based violence

Report by Lou-May Immelman

 

To read the report, Click HERE
Lesley Ann Foster's speech at UN General Assembly

It is a shocking testimony to our global community that violence against women has reached epidemic levels in most countries across the world with very little evidence of any effort by states or civil society yielding response that reduces it. 

In truth, violence against women appears to be everywhere on every agenda but on careful consideration and analysis, it is really nowhere. Most states do not have a fully developed location or mechanism for addressing violence against women in totality. Civil society and states collude in a smoke screen of responses and activities which in effect keep the status quo.

To read more of the speech, click HERE.
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Masimanyane Women's Support Centre is a Section 18A-status or public benefit organisation (PBO). Donations by or to this PBO are exempt from donations tax in terms of Section 56(1)(h) of the Act. Masimanyane's PBO number is 930011582. Masimanyane's Section 21 registration number is 1997/003982/08.

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