Masimanyane Women’s Rights International (MWRI) is a social justice and equality organisation working to end violence against women, to secure the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women and girls, and to reduce the incidence and impact of HIV/Aids on the lives of women and girls.
Masimanyane’s work is located within the human rights framework.
It is aligned with the three principles of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which are substantive equality, non-discrimination and state accountability.
The organisation has 14 offices in the Eastern Cape, 11 of them in the Buffalo City metro.
“Our training and advocacy programmes are administered nationally and internationally,” Masimanyane executive director Dr Lesley Ann Foster said.
“We work in both urban and rural areas, with a stronger focus on the most marginalised communities.”
In the past 25 years, the organisation has developed extensive expertise in training, leadership development and advocacy for policy change.
In 1996, it became part of the Amanitare Sexual Rights Network in Uganda.
“We started our international work after writing the first NGO shadow report for the UN CEDAW convention,” Foster said.
“Over the past two decades, Masimanyane has paid special attention to developing and expanding our expertise on all aspects of CEDAW and has trained women’s group across the world in shadow report writing.”
Masimanyane works closely with numerous international organisations and has partners in 55 countries.
The main thrust of Masimanyane’s work is based on the “prevention, protection and promotion of human rights, as well as the prosecution and punishment of human rights violations”.
- Prevention: This aims to use all possible means of education, capacity building and knowledge building to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls;
- Protection: Aims to ensure all human rights are protected and enjoyed by women and girls;
- Promotion: Human rights are promoted as the only value that all communities and society subscribe to;
- Prosecution: Refers to access to justice, as well as investigations, arrests and convictions of perpetrators of violence against women; and
- Punishment: Appropriate forms of sanctions or punishment given to perpetrators of violence against women.
Passion for training, leadership development and advocacy
Masimanyane Women’s Rights International (MWRI) is a social justice and equality organisation working to end violence against women, to secure the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women and girls, and to reduce the incidence and impact of HIV/Aids on the lives of women and girls.
Masimanyane’s work is located within the human rights framework.
It is aligned with the three principles of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which are substantive equality, non-discrimination and state accountability.
The organisation has 14 offices in the Eastern Cape, 11 of them in the Buffalo City metro.
“Our training and advocacy programmes are administered nationally and internationally,” Masimanyane executive director Dr Lesley Ann Foster said.
“We work in both urban and rural areas, with a stronger focus on the most marginalised communities.”
In the past 25 years, the organisation has developed extensive expertise in training, leadership development and advocacy for policy change.
In 1996, it became part of the Amanitare Sexual Rights Network in Uganda.
“We started our international work after writing the first NGO shadow report for the UN CEDAW convention,” Foster said.
“Over the past two decades, Masimanyane has paid special attention to developing and expanding our expertise on all aspects of CEDAW and has trained women’s group across the world in shadow report writing.”
Masimanyane works closely with numerous international organisations and has partners in 55 countries.
The main thrust of Masimanyane’s work is based on the “prevention, protection and promotion of human rights, as well as the prosecution and punishment of human rights violations”.
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