Mafikeng: As part of Victims Rights Week celebrations North West Department of Justice and Constitutional Development and Members of Justice and Crime Prevention Security cluster (JCPS) in partnership with United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime will host Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) workshops on the 17 to 18 September 2009 at Orion Safari Lodge starting at 08h00
Crime Victims Rights Week was officially launched in September 2008 and declared to be the 15 to 19 September of each year. The decision to dislocate it during the other campaigns was to ensure that there is focused attention on education of all victims of crime about all their seven rights located in the Victims Charter.
The Crime Victims Rights Week presents an opportunity for South Africa's weary crime reality to focus on the effects of all forms of crime on victims, communities and the nation, from an informed perspective.
The departments in the JCPS cluster decided that in order to maximise public awareness and set a process developing department implementation plans that support other departments and are informed by the public a collaborative project such as a Crime Victims Rights Week was needed.
Workshop will cover the following topics:
* Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunity and Threats (SWOT) analysis on the implementation of the service charter.
* Services for the victims of crime including domestic violence, sexual offences, general crime, vulnerable groups' women, children, the disabled and the elderly.
"We have decided to arrange NGO workshop because we believe that they are strategically positioned in communities and they can assist us with awareness rising to reach out to victims of crime in the province. To educate the public about the processes and steps to be taken to obtain assistance; encouraging them to utilise the resources that government has put in place to assist them," concluded Regional Head Tsietsi Malema.
Media enquiries can be directed to:
Mr Isaac Mokaila
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Cell: 073 742 3906
Issued by: Department of Justice and Constitutional Development
16 September 2009
