Remedies Widows need support from the moment they become widows, because from that moment, they become targets. They become vulnerable. I know that if we date or have a boyfriend, our property will be targeted…. People are not being faithful to [traditional] values of care and protection. —Charity, 49, outside Harare, May 2016. Her husband passed away in 2007.73 Widows face significant difficulties accessing legal remedies for property grabbing. In many of the cases brought to the attention of Human Rights Watch, knowledge about property rights, inheritance rights, and civil and customary law on marriage were major obstacles to protecting widows’ property. Such hurdles, from lack of knowledge, to high costs, distances from rural homes to courts in urban centers, and cumbersome court procedures, limit widows’ access to equal rights to their property. Many of the widows Human Rights Watch interviewed said that at the time of their husbands’ deaths, they had no clue as to how to challenge property grabbing. They do not know that their marriages should have been registered. Basic legal education on the radio is helping to get the word out in some areas, according to Tinomuda Shoko, a lawyer with Legal Resources Foundation, but it is not reaching widows in all areas and those not fortunate enough to have access to radios. An added complication is that older women have lower literacy rates than any other age group in Zimbabwe.74 Thus widows require additional support to navigate the legal system. 73 Human Rights Watch interview with Charity, May 28, 2016. 74 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s Institute for Statistics lists that women over 64 years of age have a literacy rate of 46.52 percent, while the next lowest rate is for men over 64 years of age, at 83.43 percent, see “Education, Literacy Rate,” UNESCO Institute for Statistics, http://data.uis.unesco.org/Index.aspx?queryid=166 (accessed July 28, 2016). “YOU WILL GET NOTHING” 32