CYBER BULLYING: THE CHALLENGES WOMEN AND GIRLS FACE IN SEEKING REDRESS IN CASES OF ON-LINE HARASSMENT IN ZIMBABWE
Cyber bullying or on-line harassment is the repeated use of an on-line expression or expressions which amounts to a pattern of conduct targeted at a particular person, often a woman (who cannot easily defend herself) with the intention of causing them substantial emotional distress and fear of bodily harm. It comprises the posting and broadcasting […]
MANAGEMENT OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT AGAINST FEMALE TRAINEE TEACHERS: A STUDY IN TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES IN HARARE, ZIMBABWE
In this dissertation, the writer, himself a graduate the Zimbabwe teacher training college system, examines the issue of sexual harassment of female trainee teachers by their male teachers. Starting with the ‘lived realities’ of the female victims, he analyses the problem based on evidence gathered through various interrelated methodologies, including the Women’s Law and Grounded […]
THE ADEQUACY OF THE MALAWI POLICE SERVICE’S (MPS) TRAINING ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (DV)
The poor performance of the Malawi Police Service (MPS) and high prevalence of domestic violence (DV) cases in Malawi raises many questions as to whether police officers receive enough training on gender-based violence including DV. This study therefore aimed at measuring the sufficiency of the training. The study used six variables from the United Nations […]
THE ALBINO VICTIM PROFILE OF RITUAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION (RSE) IN ZIMBABWE: INADEQUACIES, CONTRADICTIONS AND ANTAGONISMS IN THE LAW
This ground breaking research reveals how the unique grounded multi-disciplinary women’s law approach is an ideal tool not only to help understand and negotiate the largely unexplored terrain of ritual sexual exploitation (RSE) of women with albinism (WWA), culture and the law but also how to inspire our society to acknowledge and combat this crime […]
THE IMPACT OF MENSTRUAL MANAGEMENT AND THE EXPERIENCES OF SCHOOL-GOING GIRLS OF LOW SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS: A CASE OF KUWADZANA, HARARE, ZIMBABWE
Women and girls all over the world continue to experience gender discrimination because of the high cost of menstrual management products and the state’s failure to provide adequate access to favorable and suitable menstrual management facilities. Despite much research on the subject of menstrual hygiene and management, little is being done to improve the lives […]
THE ROLE OF YOUTH MEDIA BRANDS IN FULFILLING MALAWIAN GIRLS’ RIGHT TO SEXUAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH EDUCATION – A FOCUS ON ZATHU
Using human rights standards, state legal components and principles of health communication, this research seeks to explore the place and efficacy of the media brand, Zathu, a non-state initiative, in the substantive realization of the right of Malawian adolescent girls to sexual reproductive health education (SRHE). Using the media for women’s law methodological framework the […]
ACCESS TO MATERNAL HEALTH CARE AMONG WOMEN OF CHILDBEARING AGE IN RESETTLEMENT AREAS OF FORMER WHITE OWNED FARMS. A CASE STUDY OF A2 FARMS IN WARD 13 OF MAKONDE DISTRICT
This study aimed to examine women of childbearing age’s access to maternal healthcare in the resettlement areas of Zimbabwe’s former white-owned farms which are now divided into A2 farms. The right to maternal healthcare has been expounded in various international human rights instruments as a critical women’s right regardless of their background, race, ethnicity, colour, […]
“THE EQUITABLE DIVISION OF THE MATRIMONIAL HOME VIOLATES WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN THEIR MATRIMONIAL HOMES UPON DIVORCE”: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT LEGAL APPROACH IN THE DIVISION OF THE MATRIMONIAL HOME REGISTERED IN THE HUSBAND’S NAME UPON DIVORCE AND HOW IT VIOLATES WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Women’s rights in their matrimonial homes that are solely registered in their husbands’ names are not adequately protected under the current legal system in Zimbabwe. This is because the current legal approach of equitable division of the matrimonial home based on apportioning shares in the immoveable property in relation to each spouse’s contribution places a […]