What a reflection of the ANC’s ‘commitment’ to combatting the scourge of gender-based violence
The lead feature on BBC World Service and other international newscasts on November 25 was thethe UN Human Rights Council vote for a fact-finding investigation into Iranian human rights abuses.
In recent weeks, protesting university students, together with courageous schoolgirls, have been brutalised by security authorities, resulting in mass arrests of thousands, including journalists, and the killing of hundreds of people. All of this a rof Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who had been arrested by the morality police for not wearing her hijab properly.
Yet just as SA enters the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women & Children, the ANC government has welcomed Iranian foreign minister Dr Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and extended an invitation to president Ebrahim Raisi to visit SA in 2023.What a reflection of the ANC’s “commitment” to combatting the scourge of gender-based violence.
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