James Tutu News Today

With 16 days of activism against gender-based violence coming into effect today, the campaign reminds survivors of gender-based violence and femicide of the permanent scars of being violated. The campaign was started in 1991 by activists at the inauguration of the Women’s Global Leadership Institute, and it is used as an organising strategy by individuals and organisations around the world to call for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and children.

A former prison warder who wept in court and testified that he wanted his wife’s killer to be found and brought to book, was himself found guilty of the premeditated murder. His defence was that he found his wife and mother of his children lying in a pool of blood in his room at the West Bank prison barracks unresponsive on March 1 last year.