Masters Dissertation

Although the gender-based crime of domestic violence is the most prevalent form of violence against women and girls, it remains relatively well hidden and ignored, even in the giant slums of Kenya, a country which has domesticated in its 2010 Constitution key socio-economic and cultural rights contained in several regional and international Human Rights Instruments […]

This dissertation seeks to explain why, despite the sufficient funding to implement its policies which are inspired by its laudable Human Rights commitments, the Malawi Government persists in its failure to help its young women realise their right to understand and effectively manage their reproductive health. As a result the country continues to suffer the […]

This research interrogates and critically analyzes the issue of ‘child marriages’ in two major Apostolic sects in Zimbabwe, namely, Johanne Marange and Johanne Masowe, the major objective being to unearth the root causes of these ‘marriages’, the types, the effects and the possible solutions. The researcher questions the name itself, ‘child marriage’, and tries to […]

The author of this study examines the effectiveness of legislation in securing rural women’s land rights in the wake of the uncontrolled and unsustainable use of agricultural fields for purposes of gold mining in Kogelo, Kenya. It presents the findings and analysis of the research to demonstrate how the degradation of agricultural land as a […]

This dissertation examines the resourcefulness of Zimbabwe’s informal traders (mostly women) in creating their own social security schemes. They operate in such a bizzare hyper-inflationary economic environment of massive unemployment that the cost (for formal sector, majority male, employees) of claiming a benefit from the state’s social security system (which excludes the informal sector) often […]