Public Seminar on Masculinities, Gender-based Violence Prevention and Gender Equality in the Global South

Sonke Gender Justice Network, Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust, and the Women’s Health Unit at the University of Cape Town will be hosting a public seminar under the title: Conversations on Masculinities, Gender-based Violence Prevention and Gender Equality in the Global South. The seminar is to be held on Monday 8^th August 2011, 17h30 to 19h30, at the Lesley Social Sciences Building, University of Cape Town. The speakers are Dr Gary Barker, founding director of Instituto Promundo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Washington, DC, USA who is also founding co-chair of the Global MenEngage Alliance; Mazibuko Jara, Senior Researcher in the Law, Race and Gender Research Unit, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Kopano Ratele, Professor in the Institute of Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa, who is also co-director of the Medical Research Council-University of South Africa's Safety and Peace Promotion Research Unit and member of Sonke Gender Justice Network board. Professor Diane Cooper, Director of Women's Health Research Unit in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at University of Cape Town will act moderator.