'Women are dying at their lovers' hands' - SA

[dArKeR]

Estelle Ellis

One woman is killed every six hours - a figure researchers believe to be conservative but which is the highest recorded figure in the world. And a legal gun is used in every fifth murder.

South Africa's femicide rate is the highest in the world.

A recent study found that one South African woman is killed every six hours by a man she had chosen to spend her life with. In 50 percent of all solved murders of women in the country, it was found that the perpetrator was an intimate partner.

These were the main findings, released last week, by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), the department of forensic medicine and toxicology at the University of Cape Town, and the Medical Research Council.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20040628100944581C807232

I want to know the American NRA's relationship to SA gun laws. And we only have 4 moral and honest news sources in America; The Nation; Air America; Michael Moore; CBS (sometimes).

[JayS]

1. The NRA is not making policy for South Africa, if that is what...

...you are asking about. From the article, it does sound like South Africa has some serious problems that go far beyond mere gun ownership.



According to Amnesty International, countries which are signatories of the UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, like South Africa, are obliged to "take measures to ensure that law enforcement officers and public officials responsible for implementing policies to prevent, investigate and punish violence against women receive training to sensitise them to the needs of women".

"However, a great deal of ignorance and ignoring of these standards still exists around the world and gun violence against women is often fuelled by a culture of general violence against women," Amnesty International says.

Its research, which dealt specifically with violence against women in which guns are used, shows that in South Africa, more women have been shot at home in domestic violence situations than out on the streets or by intruders.

"Male police officers have been responsible for a higher rate of domestic abuse than ordinary civilians: a pilot research study conducted in Johannesburg in the mid-1990s found one in five perpetrators of domestic killing of women relatives or partners to be police," AI says.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. CBS? I don't think so.

[BigDaddyLove]

3. Femicide?

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[JayS]

4. That was a strange term. n/t

n/t

[kayell]

7. Femicide

http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/femicide.html

http://www.dianarussell.com/femicide.html

[JayS]

5. Bump

[Ripley]

6. I don't think the NRA has anything to do with this.

They would probably kill their wives with machete's if that's all they had access to.

That is a shocking statistic. And for those asking about "femicide:"

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"Women," Vetten said "are most likely to be murdered by male intimate partners and less frequently by strangers. It was in response to this observation that the term 'femicide' was coined. It was developed to emphasise that in some instances women are murdered for no better reason than being female."

[JayS]

8. South Africa threads sure die fast...