Masters Dissertation

This dissertation explores how, upon their husband’s death, poor illiterate widows often suffer, at the hands of unscrupulous family members, severe economic, physical, social and cultural hardships in breach of their right to inherit from his estate. Several enlightening methodologies (especially the Grounded Theory and Women’s Law Approaches) are combined and implemented with appropriate data […]

The original intention of this research was to explore the extent to which the Intellectual Property (IP) framework could be invoked to improve the competitive business skills of women in the informal craft industry sector who manufacture and sell their own products. The field of research comprised two groups of people, one group of 15 […]

The important issue of providing women and vulnerable groups access to water and sanitation following environmental disasters is an on-going global debate. Since women and girls are the primary users of water and sanitation, they are the most severely affected by disasters which destroy or limit their access to them. Accordingly, disaster management exercises should […]

This dissertation exposes how, under the current contradictory provisions of Kenya’s Constitution, Luo men remain free to order the core of the life of their community around the brutal, routine and systematic sexual domination of their women. Using ‘taboo’ or the fear of disobeying superstition (euphemistically called ‘culture’) as their excuse, these men (in collusion […]

This dissertation, written by a Magistrate, focuses on sex education within Zimbabwe’s Secondary School curriculum currently delivered through Guidance and Counselling (G & C) lessons to male and female students from Forms 1 to 4 (about 13-16 years of age). This sex education programme falls within the broader context of sexual and reproductive health information […]

Using a case study approach, this dissertation seeks to determine the success or otherwise of the Community Health Fund Scheme (a government national   medical insurance scheme) in making health care affordable and accessible to   self-employed rural Maasai women in the district of Arusha, Tanzania. Written by the legal officer who drafted the Funds’ […]

Zimbabwe has made commitments – global, regional and national – towards the fulfilment of the right to maternal health care by ratifying several international conventions and other regional instruments. According to the Magistrate who writes this dissertation, whilst such commitments are commendable and a significant step toward achieving this goal, for rural women in Romsley […]