Masters Dissertation

“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 […]
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AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CHALLENGES FACED BY CIRCUMSTANTIAL CHILDREN IN ZAMBIAN PRISONS: A STUDY CARRIED OUT IN LUSAKA, KABWE, KITWE, AND NDOLA WOMEN’S PRISONS, ZAMBIA

Children living with mothers in prison are often forgotten by the authorities who fail to take them into consideration at the level of national policy, budgeting or within the daily operational environment of prisons. The government and society at large have turned a blind eye toward these children who are termed „circumstantial children‟ which distinguishes […]
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LEFT OUT IN THE COLD: INTERROGATING THE INCLUSION OF WOMEN EMPLOYED IN THE INFORMAL SECTOR IN LESOTHO INTO THE FORMAL SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM

The economic crisis in Lesotho has driven masses of its citizens from the formal to the informal sector in an attempt to sustain themselves The author is a human rights lawyer and women’s activist who is disturbed by the gross imbalances she has witnessed in the application and/or enforcement of rights and the distribution of […]
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Handling of survivors of rape as a crime against humanity, the gender perspective in the Rwandan genocide tribunal : Some lessons from the Muhimana case

This essay finds its departure in the preparatory work in the Muhimana case1zeroing on the interaction with respective witnesses who subsequently testified in the case. The accused, Muhimana committed exclusive and disproportionate crimes against women and girls in Kibuye during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. As the prosecutor rightly put it, his ‘hallmark’ was rape and […]
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