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Achieving women's rights is Action Aid's overarching priority that they try to achieve through campaigning and different programme work.<ref name=Actionaid /> They view ending violence against women as a pivotal element of their overarching mission, including corrective rape. They commissioned a report entitled "Hate crimes: The rise of ‘corrective’ rape in South Africa" which is cited throughout this wikipedia article.
Action Aid joined People Opposing Women Abuse, the Treatment Action Committee and 27 other human rights organizations to organize the "07-07-07 Campaign", named to mark the date that two women, Sizakele Sigasa and Salome Massooa, were brutally murdered after being subjected to corrective rape in a Johannesburg township.<ref name=Actionaid /> The campaign calls for justice for Sizakele and Salome and all women being targeted for hate crimes.Despite police inaction, the coalition is demanding that the authorities re-examine the case and conduct a thorough and efficient investigation into the murder, rape and torture of the women. Furthermore, the campaign is calling for sexual orientation to be specifically recognised as grounds for protection in a proposed new Prohibition of Hate Speech Bill. On International Women’s Day 2009, ActionAid called for an end to South Africa’s war against
women with the following recommendations:<ref name=Actionaid />
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– Prioritise and take steps to guarantee women’s security, by addressing violence against women in all its manifestations.
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