We’re proud to have been invited to discuss corrective rape in South Africa on Al Jazeera Live and The Stream. With comments like, “The way you dress [...] causes the rape, those short skirts are not right”, it is clear that we still have a long way to go. Thanks for inviting us to be a part of this important...
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This weekend, Girls & Football SA was invited to attend the Cup of Dreams All Girls tournament in Pretoria, South Africa! With 26 teams it is the largest girls’ tournament in the country. Throughout the day (and in the summer heat of the Gauteng province), we carried out our safe-space workshops with the different teams....
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Human rights are defined as the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled. On December 10th 1948, the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” which identifies various rights, such as the right to life, liberty and security, freedom from slavery and servitude, freedom...
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With the basic human rights of women regarding their health, bodies and sexuality being called into question during recent debates on contraceptive use in the US, Girls & Football SA carried out a series of interviews with girls and women in South Africa to discover that the majority does not feel they have access to accurate...
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To celebrate International Women’s Day, here’s a quote from Ms Fran Hilton Smith, a leading woman in the South African football world and ex-Manager of the South African national women’s team, “If it hadn’t been for football, I don’t believe that many of the girls would have achieved the heights...
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We are so proud to say that our lovely friends and colleagues at Project Girl Performance Collective have something huge to celebrate; their Executive Director and great colleague to Girls & Football SA, Jessica Greer Morris, has been selected as 1 of 150 women who shake the world! She is joined by incredible women such as...
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