Stop Violence Against Women Bus Campaign

This campaign is being co-ordinated by the CSVR, together with many partner organisations from across the country.

The campaign is being called the ?“Stop Violence against Women Bus Campaign?”. The objective of the campaign is to inform women on what their rights are and how they can go about accessing these rights. It will include raising awareness around legislation designed to protect women and uphold their right to safety and security namely the Domestic Violence Act and Sexual Offences Bill.

The idea of this campaign is to have a bus drive from Johannesburg to Cape Town. The bus will leave from the Constitutional Court on International Women?’s Day, 8th March and arrive at Parliament in Cape Town on 6th April. The bus will be decorated with slogans on stopping violence against women. There will be a number of volunteers on the bus who will be trained in the areas of, among others, stopping violence against women, gender equity, HIV and AIDS, domestic violence, rape and child abuse. Volunteers will include counsellors and legal advice givers. The bus will stop along the way at various points where workshops will be run and pamphlets will be distributed. Organisations?’ existing materials will be distributed, and where information gaps exist, also develop materials such as posters, pamphlets and fact sheets, which will give information to women on what their rights are and how they can access these rights. The project will encourage women to get involved in lobbying government to properly implement existing legislation so that their rights can be protected. In the case of the Sexual Offences Bill the women themselves will call on the enactment of this Bill.

If any organisation is keen to be part of this campaign, contact Cookie Edwards on Ph: +27 31 304 6928; Fax: +27 31 304 6930 or Cell: +27 83 637 0203.

For more information on this campaign, please see the Agenda on the righthand side of this page