Masters Dissertation

This research examines the extent to which the women and children of the marginalised and seriously economically challenged rural Marakwet community are able to access potable water under Kenya‟s current water management regime. More specifically, the researcher, a member of the Marakwet community, seeks to predict the effectiveness of the proposed provisions of Kenya‟s draft […]

This work was written by a legal practitioner who, before the research, had been finding it difficult to defend the rights of the widows of mine workers in Lesotho’s courts against the application of the common law principle of stipulatio alteri in relation to the benefits of employment earned by their deceased husbands who had […]

Employing primarily the grounded women’s law approach, this research critically analyses the extent to which the government of Zimbabwe meets the rights, needs and interests of girls living on the street in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. The researcher relied for her data on relevant local legislation (including the Constitution and the Children’s Act) and […]

This study centres on the access to legal aid for child juvenile detainees in mainland Tanzania. The study aims at looking at access to legal aid by child juvenile detainees living in retention homes. Further it aims at understanding the juvenile justice system and to develop strategies for ensuring the justice system is strengthened by […]

This research investigates the taboo, highly sensitive, emotive and secretive subject of the harmful cultural practice of dry sex. It does so in order to put forward a strong case for the state’s long-overdue intervention in the regulation of cheap and dangerous unregistered traditional and conventional vaginal drying agents which are produced in or smuggled […]

This dissertation is based on a study of women‘s access to sustainable energy in Malawi. Sustainable energy for all is one of the goals being pursued in sustainable development. Using qualitative methods and engaging methodological processes that enhance an understanding of women‘s lived realities, the study unmasks factors contributing to women‘s lack of or limited […]

This study centres on the judicial implementation of the principle of the best interests of the child in matters relating to custody in Tanzania. The study aims to explore the factors that are taken into account by the judiciary in implementing the best interests of the child criterion in matters relating to custody.   In […]

Conscious of the sad reality that South Sudan has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world (2,045 for every 100,000 live births), the writer, a safe motherhood specialist of the Reproductive Health Association of South Sudan (RHASS), employs a case study approach of female inmates in Juba Main Prison to examine the quality of […]