Masters Dissertation

A case study was conducted on four commercial farms in Mashonaland Central Province and it was aimed at investigating the employment conditions of women farm workers. One-onone interviews, group discussions and key informants were used as methods to collect data on and understand the situation of women farm workers. The…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…