• Right to social security to benefit widows, orphans, disabled, and elderly • Widows must be able to remarry a person of their choice • Widows must be entitled to inherit from their husband’s estate and children must be entitled to inherit from their parents’ estates in equal shares. • Elderly women must be protected from all forms of abuse. • Elderly women must access free health care services. • Elderly women must be given social security grants to cater for their needs. 3. Violence against women The state should put in place laws to eradicate all forms of violence against women both in public and private sphere. This includes domestic violence, sexual harassment, trafficking, political violence all forms of sexual violence and any other forms of violence against women. Domestic violence should be treated as torture. Government should allocate adequate resources for the implementation and monitoring actions aimed at preventing and eradicating violence against women. 4. Women and the Criminal Justice System The prison system of Zimbabwe should ensure that the dignity of female prisoners is preserved through treatment of women prisoners with the ultimate aim of reformation and social rehabilitation Women in detention to have occasional access to their partners in private Access to sanitary-ware for women in detention should be guaranteed. Children must be allowed access to their mothers in prison. Appropriate sentencing for pregnant women must be introduced. Alternative methods such as community service should be awarded as opposed to custodial sentences. Women should be afforded legal representation at all instances. Day care facilities should be availed for children with mothers in prison. 5. International and Regional Human Rights Instruments International human rights conventions once ratified by the Zimbabwean government, should automatically become part of our national laws without the need for domestication. 6. Equality before the law Women must have the right to equal protection before the law