Stop "corrective rape" in South Africa
From a Cape Town safehouse for survivors of ‘corrective rape,’ the women created a petition on Change.org targeting South African Justice Minister Jeffrey Radebe.Please, they wrote, declare ‘corrective rape’ a hate crime, which would both empower and require South African police to take a harder line on the vicious crime.
Click here to add your name to the petition.
More than 500 “corrective rapes” are reported in South Africa each year, and more than 30 South African lesbians have been murdered because of their sexuality over the past decade. Worse, for every 100 men charged with rape in South Africa, 96 of them walk free.
More than 9,000 Change.org members have added their name to the petition created by Ndumie and Millicent. Click here to add yours:http://www.change.org/petitions/view/south_africa_declare_corrective_rape_a_hate-crime
P.S. Every time a new person signs the petition, the Justice Minister’s office automatically gets an email. So once you join, will you forward this to friends and family, and post on Facebook, so that they hear a global outcry?
Please help take a stand against this horrifying issue.
