{"id":52255,"date":"2025-11-21T02:43:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=52255"},"modified":"2025-11-21T02:43:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:43:44","slug":"south-african-women-call-purple-protest-over-gender-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=52255","title":{"rendered":"South African women call purple protest over gender violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South African women&#8217;s rights groups are calling for nationwide protests to demand that gender-based violence (GBV) be declared a national disaster in a country where attacks on women have become commonplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The campaign began with a viral social media movement and will culminate in a nationwide &#8220;shutdown&#8221; on Friday, ahead of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Celebrities, citizens and nations have shown their solidarity by changing their social media profile pictures to purple \u2013 a colour often linked to GBV awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Africa experiences some of the world&#8217;s highest levels of GBV, with the rate at which women are killed five times higher than the global average, according to UN Women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between January and March this year, 137 women were murdered and more than 1,000 raped, according to South African crime statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: South African women&#8217;s rights groups are calling for nationwide protests to demand that gender-based violence (GBV) be declared a national disaster in a country where attacks on women have become commonplace. The campaign began with a viral social media movement and will culminate in a nationwide &#8220;shutdown&#8221; on Friday, ahead of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg. Celebrities, citizens and nations have shown their solidarity by changing their social media profile pictures to purple \u2013 a colour often linked to GBV awareness. South Africa experiences some of the world&#8217;s highest levels of GBV, with the rate at which women are&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52257,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52255\/revisions\/52257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}