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Sexist violence and feminicide are a real “crisis” in South Africa, where seven women are killed every day, participants said on the 17th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) on Friday, which is held in CAP (1470 km from Pretoria).
“The South African government must declare sexist violence and feminicide as a national disaster,” said militants against gender-based violence (VBG), calling on the executive to intensify his efforts and do more to fight this scourge.
Citing police statistics, the spokesperson for the group “Women for Change”, Cameron K, said that between April 2023 and May 2024, on average 117 cases of rape were reported daily in the country, noting that the measures taken so far to solve this problem were insufficient.
She added that by declaring feminicide as a national disaster, the government will be forced to mobilize more resources and undertake new measures to help the victims.
Citing data from the fourth survey of the South African Medical Research Council, stakeholders revealed that the overall rate of female in South Africa is now 10.6 per 100,000 women, almost five times higher than in the rest of the world. In addition, 35.5 % of South African women (7.8 million) were victims of violence, they deplore, citing results from the first South African national study on gender-based violence, carried out by the Research Council in Human Sciences.
According to the UN, the voluntary murder of a woman simply because she is a woman is the most extreme form of sexist violence.
The 17th biennial conference of the International Association of Women Judges, which is held from April 9 to 12 in CAP, in South Africa, is organized under the theme “Resilience: women with leadership to end sexist and female violence”. It brings together around 900 judges, magistrates, law professionals and political decision -makers around the world.
The rally is working on the examination of several subjects: “Resilient leadership: diversity, equality and inclusion”, “deals with human beings and marginalized communities”, “safety at work for magistrates: mental health and health self-management”, “put an end to the feminicide: what have we learned? “,” Sexist violence: harmful practices “,” AI, technology and cyber-violence “,” judicial activism in cases of sexist violence “and” fictional trial: gender and climate change “.
Morocco is represented at this event by Mina Skrati, judge at the Casablanca administrative court and president of the Union of Women Judges of Morocco and Salima al-Ruhi, judge at the Casablanca Commercial Court and Secretary General of the Union of Women Judges of Morocco.
