The Women's Charter
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- Date recorded
- Apr 30, 2000
- Category
- Women
- Summary
What Zimbabwean Women Demand in the new Constitution
Gender and Constitutional Issues: Special report 2
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- Date recorded
- Mar 31, 2001
- Category
- Women
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Rights of women to their own sexuality and fecundity remain deeply problematic in many societies. Whether rights over personal sexuality and reproduction are classified as civil or social, they are still the subject of bitter conflict for women worldwide.
Thoughts on National Healing
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- Dec 31, 2003
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- Trauma
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The report contains issues like Dealing with complex emergencies,developing a community response ti trauma,state psycho-social support for victims of organised violence and torture as well as the identification of victims.
Women on the Run
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- Date recorded
- Nov 30, 2006
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- Trauma
- Women
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This report has been issued to coincide with the 16 days on gender activism, and concerns the organized violence and torture experienced by Zimbabwean women during the crisis that has engulfed Zimbabwe since 2000. The women described in this report have all fled Zimbabwe into exile in South Africa, and most are currently seeking political asylum.
“A Woman’s Place is in the Home?” – Gender Based Violence and Opposition Politics in Zimbabwe.
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2006
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- Politics & Governance
- Women
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This report, examining the violent and turbulent years between 2000 and 2006, shows that Zimbabwe has been no exception in this regard.
Simplified Domestic Violence Act
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- Date recorded
- Oct 25, 2007
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- Children
- Women
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The pamphlet provides a summary of the Domestic Violence Act [Chapter 5:16] and explanatory notes on its application for the benefit of children, their caregivers and partners in the child rights sector.The Act was enacted on 26 February 2007 and became operational on 25 October 2007.
Model Law on Eradicating Child Marriage and Protecting Children Already In Marriage
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- Dec 31, 2008
- Category
- Children
- Women
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Child marriage remains a problem in Southern Africa due to a variety of factors. These include poverty; gender inequity; tradition; insecurity,especially in times of conflict, limited education and lack of adequate legal frameworks in Member States, most of which are inconsistent.
Complex Emergencies and the Tree of Life A Community based Approach to Dealing with Trauma
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- Dec 31, 2009
- Category
- Trauma
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A community-based approach to dealing with trauma highlights issues about Trauma and complex emergencies. This report is not concerned with describing the many ways in which trauma may be inflicted during complex emergencies, but rather to very briefly describe their effects.
The Tree of Life A Community Approach to Empowering and Healing Survivors of Torture in Zimbabwe
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- Dec 31, 2009
- Category
- Trauma
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The article explores the effectiveness of the use of an empowerment workshop, called the Tree of Life, in the treatment of torture survivors. The approach is based on a survivor-to-survivor model of assistance.
Publication 122 (1)
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2009
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Elections
- Women
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This paper advocates that election observation should take note of the issue of gender equality in electoral processes. Women’s full and equal participation and the integration of gender perspectives into all levels of the electoral processes enhance democratic practices in elections and for this reason, election observer missions should be prepared to render an election not free and fair on the basis of significant transgressions of the electoral rights of women.
“NOW THE WORLD IS WITHOUT ME ”: AN INVESTIGATION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
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- Date recorded
- Apr 30, 2010
- Category
- Trauma
- Women
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This was a retrospective cohort study conducted at Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, South Kivu Province. Using a non-systematic convenience sample, interviews were conducted on sexual violence survivors as they presented to Panzi Hospital requesting services from the Victims of Sexual Violence Program.
Background on politically motivated rape
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- Apr 30, 2011
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- Women
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The report talks about the two different forms of rape which need to be distinguished: the first, rape that occurs during actual war, and the second, politically motivated rape, which can occur outside of war situations, but is used a political tactic against a particular ethnic or political grouping. This report is concerned with the latter since it is evident that a state of war does not exist in Zimbabwe, although it could rightly be described as a “complex emergency”2.
CEDAW Shadow report
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- Date recorded
- Jun 30, 2011
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- Women
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This Report focused on the Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights of Women has been prepared and submitted to the CEDAW Committee by Beyond Beijing Committee (BBC) as an Alternative Report to the 4th and 5th combined periodic report submitted by the Government of Nepal. The purpose of the report is to maintain the government accountability both inside the country and at the United Nations.
Trauma and Mental Health in Zimbabwe
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- Date recorded
- Nov 30, 2011
- Category
- Trauma
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This paper falls into three sections.The first section provides a brief overview of organised violence and torture in Zimbabwe, The second section ―Developing a response: learning from experience elsewhere, presents in brief the shifts in thinking in this field.
CEDAW concluding observations 2012
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- Jul 27, 2012
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- Women
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Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
LITIGATION STRATEGIES FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN AFRICA
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- Sep 30, 2012
- Category
- Children
- Trauma
- Women
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Sexual violence is the most pervasive form of violence in many of the conflict-ridden countries in Africa and continues to remain so, through various post-conflict stages even after the conflict has ended. Violence, particularly of a sexual nature and against women, that was characteristic of a prolonged conflict, comes to be accepted as the norm and part of the culture more so than it was prior to the conflict.
ZWLA Gender Audit COPAC draft 2012
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- Dec 31, 2012
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- Women
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The paper is structured in such a way which makes possible a systematic assessment of each of the relevant provisions of the draft. It will point out and commend the provisions which adequately address women’s needs but also point out any inadequacies and suggest improvements.
IJR Zimbabwe Womens Needs
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- Dec 31, 2012
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- Women
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This paper is founded on two intertwined arguments. The first is that many national healing processes fail to consider the needs of the victims of violent conflict, especially women (partly because transitional justice processes are often driven by elites who proscribe and institutionalize them). The second is that, in identifying and addressing women’s needs in the national healing agenda, Zimbabwe should aim to avoid the traps of transitional justice initiatives that have focused on the human-rights violations alone.
A Preliminary Study Into Zimbabwean Societal Perceptions of Rape
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- Apr 30, 2013
- Category
- Women
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This report is based on the results of this study, which was done through the administration of a questionnaire prepared by RAU with a special focus on rape as a component of sexual violence. The study revealed interesting findings about how people view rape including that,Most people had a good understanding of what rape is and they based it on cultural implications.
Sexual Orientation and Zimbabwe's Constitution
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2013
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
- Women
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The case emphasizes on the need to specify sexual orientation together with the nature of the Right to Equality and Non-discrimination.
National Gender Policy
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- Dec 31, 2013
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- Women
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This second National Gender Policy replaces the first National Gender Policy of 2004. The first National Gender Policy gave way to a range of initiatives meant to address gender inequalities. The ethos of Growth with Equity underpinned the 2004 NGP which was implemented under four thematic areas namely – (i) Women in Politics and Decision Making; (ii) Women and the Economy; (iii) Education and Training of Women; and (iv) Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women.
Report on Nov 2013 Conference on Violence Against Women & Girls Zimbabwe Parliament May 2014
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- Date recorded
- May 13, 2014
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- Children
- Women
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The Conference of Women Parliamentarians took place at the precincts of the PanAfrican Parliament in Midrand South Africa on 1st and 2nd November, 2013 under the Theme: “Parliamentarians Responding to Violence against Women and Girls in Africa, from Legislation to Effective Enforcement”.
Zimbabwe Gender Commission Bill 2014
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- Date recorded
- Dec 30, 2014
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- Politics & Governance
- Women
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This Bill seeks to establish a Gender Commission as provided for in section 245 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe which creates an independent institution called the Zimbabwe Gender Commission. It also seeks to fulfil international and regional instruments that Zimbabwe is a party to, namely the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Beijing Declaration and platform for Action
Child Marriage Report Goromonzi
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- Date recorded
- May 31, 2015
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- Children
- Women
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This is the second report on child marriage in Goromonzi District, following on a preliminary report of a study carried out in 2014 (RAU.2014), and series of legal reports prior to this (Dube.2012; RAU. 2011(a); RAU. 2011(b)). These reports are a contribution to the rapidly growing debate in Zimbabwe and the international world on the undesirability of early marriage for girls.
Icasa Zimbabwe Information Guide 24 November 2015
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- Date recorded
- Nov 24, 2015
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- 2008 & Beyond
In Their Capacity as Human Rights Defenders: Women
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- Dec 30, 2015
- Category
- Women
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The typical woman human rights defender (woman HRD) that this publication focuses on is one who asserts her rights as a human being first, and then as a woman, knowing full well that she bears the brunt of a breakdown of the human rights fulfilment matrix directly or indirectly.
Gender and the Politics of Reconciliation Helen Scanlon 2016
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- Date recorded
- Jun 30, 2016
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- Politics & Governance
- Women
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This paper explores how attempts to confront abusive pasts have deliberated gender in the promotion of reconciliation. In particular it will examine the nexus between gender justice and reconciliation in order to assess and considers ways to re-calibrate engagement with ongoing reconciliation processes.
Breaking the silence on Gender-Based Violence in Zimbabwe
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- Date recorded
- Oct 1, 2016
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- Children
- Women
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The project is drawn against one of the Government of Zimbabwe’s key interventions in improving utilisation of comprehensive quality services for protection, care and support for GBV survivors in accordance with the National Gender-Based Violence Strategy. The project sought to respond and strengthen community gender-based violence service delivery and holistic support targeting adolescent girls and young women in line with the Multi-Sectoral Protocol on the Management of Sexual Abuse in Zimbabwe and the Constitution
GALZ Report 2016 final
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2016
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
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The assessment focused on documenting the nature and extent of the state sanctioned and unsanctioned raids on GALZ. The assessment brings out the opaqueness of the raids, which demonstrates the precarious environment that GALZ operates in.
“You Will Get Nothing” Violations of Property and Inheritance Rights of Widows in Zimbabwe
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- Jan 31, 2017
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- Women
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Zimbabwean law provides for relatively equal property and inheritance rights for men and women. However, many of the women Human Rights Watch interviewed struggled to claim those rights for reasons unique to their status as widows. In Zimbabwe’s recent history, men traditionally owned all family property, and when women were widowed, they were often “inherited” as wives by male relatives of their deceased spouse.