Hope Risen Foundation in collaboration with Gravel Road Productions and Insurance Crime Bureau are showing the Sound of Freedom at Monte Casino, Johannesburg on the 30 August 2023. Hear from experts on the ground regarding child trafficking in South Africa. 100% of your ticket price is donated to the Hope Risen Foundation. GET YOUR TICKET...
i am All Girls is more than a movie. It’s a movement, uniting us to do more for the women of tomorrow. Helping us come together to end gender violence and keep our wives, daughters, sisters and friends safe, unharmed, untouched. She will rise. Watch i am All Girls on Netflix.
Prostitution in South Africa is illegal for both buying and selling sex, as well as related activities such as brothel keeping and pimping (Section 20(1)(aA) and section 11 of the Sexual Offences Act). Accurate estimates on the number of people enslaved today are nearly impossible because of the hidden nature of the crime. Some estimate...
16 Days of Activism against Women and Children Abuse is a global campaign that South Africa participates in. The campaign was initiated in 1991 by the Women’s Global Leadership Institute[1]. They have allocated the theme of ‘ending gender-based violence in the world of work to this year’s campaign. UN Women have also encouraged conversation about...
Trigger warning: Many readers may find the following accounts to be graphic and/or disturbing. In August a team of volunteers spent the month visiting the city, Johannesburg to speak to some of the prostitutes on the city streets. This is a weekly and monthly outreach that takes place in our city. This is Fikile’s* story...
Trigger warning: Many readers may find the following accounts to be graphic and/or disturbing. In South Africa this month we celebrate Youth Day on June 16th. We take the time to soberly remember the Soweto Uprising of 1976, where some of our most vulnerable were killed and injured for standing up against injustices they faced....
South Africans celebrated Freedom Day on Saturday 27th April. This day commemorates the first national democratic election following the dissolution of apartheid in 1994. Voters numbering 19.7 million gathered freely to cast their vote to determine the type of South Africa they wanted to see[1]. Despite our many successes as a nation, human trafficking is...
Human Rights We commemorate our rights in South Africa on the 21st of March. In 1960, in the midst of the destructive machinations of South Africa, the Sharpeville Massacre resulted in 69 protestors against apartheid being shot and killed. The day now offers a time for reflection on our rights and values as a country....
Most of us are unaware that the second largest organised crime in the world is Human Trafficking. One of the features of Human Trafficking is its covertness; it is highly inconspicuous unless looked for. It happens wherever people exist: malls, churches, schools, and it favours no specific socio-economic class, country or race. It is everywhere,...
