Masters Dissertation

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 […]

This dissertation focuses on the high risk to HIV/AIDS infection of young Muslim girls who, as a result of a combination of factors, are forced into early polygynous (or polygamous) marriages. Invoking a combination of modern methodologies, in particular the Women’s Law, Grounded Theory and Human Rights based Approaches, the writer conducts a detailed investigation […]

This dissertation explores why the sex industry in Cameroon is such a thriving one, with more and more women resorting to commercial sex work (CSW) on a daily basis despite the existence of a law in the country’s Penal Code penalising sex workers and persons who solicit sex or share in the proceeds of commercial […]

In order to bring its laws protecting children into line with several relevant regional and international Human Rights instruments (such as the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, CRC), Zambia effected a number of changes to its legislation,   including the 2005 amendment of section 169 of its Penal Code, which makes it […]

This research critically analyses some of the major reasons why the rehabilitation and reintegration programmes in at least 2 of Uganda’s women prisons fail in their main objective of ensuring that former female prisoners make a success of their lives after leaving prison. Written by a UPS (Ugandan Prison Service) Regional Welfare and Rehabilitation Officer, […]

Using the latest research methods to highlight the condition of women, this dissertation (written by a professional Magistrate) explores an apparently ludicrous, but nevertheless pressing real problem: Magistrates being forced, since the abolition of Traditional Courts in 1995, to act apparently ultra vires (i.e., beyond their powers) when they order the dissolution of customary law […]

This research seeks to interrogate whether section 79 of Zimbabwe’s Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act which criminalises wilful transmission of HIV protects women against infections and violence. The research’s main focus was on the attitudes towards sexuality by various women as well as the problems of prosecuting such cases. I used methodologies which include […]