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.
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- Mar 7, 2019
A Preliminary Study Into Zimbabwean Societal Perceptions of Rape
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- Date recorded
- Apr 30, 2013
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- 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.
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- Mar 12, 2019
National Gender Policy
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- Date recorded
- 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.
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- Mar 12, 2019
Policy Brief: Challenges in attaining Gender balance in elections in Zimbabwe
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- Date recorded
- Feb 28, 2015
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- Elections
- Women
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The paper suggests ways of increasing women's participation in local government, parliament and senate.
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- Mar 12, 2019
Publication 122 (1)
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2009
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- 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.
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- Mar 12, 2019
The Women's Charter
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- Date recorded
- Apr 30, 2000
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- Women
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What Zimbabwean Women Demand in the new Constitution
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- Mar 13, 2019
GENDER EQUALITY AND EQUITY ANALYSIS 15 May 2017
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- Date recorded
- May 15, 2017
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- Women
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The Research & Advocacy Unit (RAU) undertook an analysis of the gender equality provisions under Zimbabwe’s new Constitution and compared these provisions to those constituted by select countries in the region.This document sets forth the analysis by providing a comparison between the gender equity provisions of the Constitution of Zimbabwe and those of Botswana, and Kenya, and South Africa.
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- Mar 13, 2019
Ballot Update March 2012
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- Date recorded
- Mar 31, 2012
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- Elections
- Women
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Electoral system reform and implications for Gender equality
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- Mar 15, 2019
Magaya+v+Magaya
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- Date recorded
- Dec 30, 1999
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- Human rights Judgements
- Women
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Appellant applied to be designated heir on grounds that only male issues are entitled under customary law to be nominated heirs. Community Court appointed Appellant but Respondent appealed on ground that not all family members had opportunity to attend trial of case. Magistrate’s Court reversed and appointed Respondent as heir.
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- Mar 27, 2019
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
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- Apr 2, 2019
Between a rock and a hard place – women human rights defenders at risk
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- Date recorded
- Mar 31, 2007
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- Women
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This report focuses on the circumstances of women human rights defenders in Zimbabwe. It explores their motivations and objectives. It documents human rights violations experienced by women human rights defenders, and the tools of repression used by the government to crush dissent.
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- Apr 2, 2019
LITIGATION STRATEGIES FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN AFRICA
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- Date recorded
- 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.
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- Apr 26, 2019
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.
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- Apr 26, 2019
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and people's Rights on the Rights Of Women in Africa
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- Date recorded
- Jul 11, 2003
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- Women
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Consists of 32 Articles which elaborate on Women's Rights.
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- May 5, 2019
IJR Zimbabwe Womens Needs
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- Date recorded
- 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.
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- May 5, 2019
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
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- May 9, 2019
Agenda 2063
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- Apr 30, 2015
- Category
- Children
- Women
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Agenda 2063, rooted in Pan Africanism and African Renaissance, provides a robust framework for addressing past injustices and the realisation of the 21st Century as the African Century.
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- May 12, 2019
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.
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- May 12, 2019
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.
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- May 15, 2019
IJR GBV symposium ENG text 04 2 1
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- Mar 17, 2017
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- Women
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The report on a symposium entitled Accountability for conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence: Successes, challenges, narratives, and omissions which took place at the University of Pretoria from 15–17 March 2017.
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- May 16, 2019
BRIEFING TO THE PRESESSION WORKING-GROUP OF THE UN COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN
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- Date recorded
- Jun 30, 2011
- Category
- Displacements
- Murambatsvina
- Women
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This briefing reflects Amnesty International’s information on human rights violations committed during and after mass forced evictions carried out in 2005. The program of forced evictions was carried out across the country, affecting an estimated 700,000 people, who were left without homes, or livelihoods, or both.
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- May 16, 2019
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.
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- May 16, 2019
“You Will Get Nothing” Violations of Property and Inheritance Rights of Widows in Zimbabwe
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- Date recorded
- 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.
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- May 17, 2019
“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
- Category
- 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.
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- Oct 30, 2019
Women and social capital statistical study final 8 February 2018(2)
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- Feb 8, 2018
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- Women
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The present study examined social capital in women using the data from the last three rounds of the Afrobarometer surveys on Zimbabwe. Social capital in women is associated with Freedoms, Political participation,; Agency, Support for Democracy, and Political trust.
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- Nov 5, 2019
Gender and Constitutional Issues: Special report 2
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- Date recorded
- Mar 31, 2001
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- 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.
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- Nov 10, 2019
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
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- Nov 18, 2019
Pastoral letter on family fov 2016
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- Oct 23, 2016
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- Children
- Women
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The message is meant to cheer and encourage, fill with hope, to give praise, understanding and support to all married couples and families.
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- Nov 27, 2019
In Their Capacity as Human Rights Defenders: Women
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- Date recorded
- 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.
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- Dec 2, 2019
“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
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- 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.
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- Dec 4, 2019