eNCA | UN Task Team Visits SA on Gender-based Violence Fact Finding Mission

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Cape Town, October 24 -- A United Nations task team on Women, Children and Gender Equality has met with Free Gender and the Department of Women, Children and People with Disabilities to discuss discrimination towards these marginalized groups in South Africa. Members of the Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, Transgender and Intersex community feel they are under attack and that government has done little to keep them safe from homophobic attacks. The department's deputy minister, Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu says government is finalising plans for a national summit on gender-based violence.

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