{"id":220226,"date":"2026-01-12T23:17:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/africa-at-the-heart-of-change-spotlight-initiative-highlights-breakthroughs-in-tackling-gender-based-violence\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:17:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:17:57","slug":"africa-at-the-heart-of-change-spotlight-initiative-highlights-breakthroughs-in-tackling-gender-based-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/africa-at-the-heart-of-change-spotlight-initiative-highlights-breakthroughs-in-tackling-gender-based-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: At the Heart of Change &#8211; Spotlight Initiative Highlights Breakthroughs in Tackling Gender-Based Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">When it comes to protecting women and girls from gender-based violence, change happens when they are &#8220;at the heart of every decision,&#8221; according to Erin Kenny, Global Coordinator of the Spotlight Initiative a United Nations-European Union partnership aimed at tackling all forms of abuse against women and girls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">At the heart of change: Spotlight Initiative highlights breakthroughs in tackling gender-based violence<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">When it comes to protecting women and girls from gender-based violence, change&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601120211.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to protecting women and girls from gender-based violence, change happens when they are &#8220;at the heart of every decision,&#8221; according to Erin Kenny, Global Coordinator of the Spotlight Initiative a United Nations-European Union partnership aimed at tackling all forms of abuse against women and girls. At the heart of change: Spotlight Initiative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,53397,7796,9518,5264,8250,9890,257,254,5124,6210,2148,421],"class_list":["post-220226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-breakthroughs","tag-change","tag-genderbased","tag-heart","tag-highlights","tag-initiative","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spotlight","tag-tackling","tag-violence","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}