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  2004 ZIM: Comprehensive Review of Gender Issues in the Education Sector

  2004

  In Zimbabwe, key indicators on enrolment, access to, and completion in education show stagnation in educational development between 1990 and 2001. Within this, serious disparities and inequalities are revealed with gender being a key contributory factor.
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  Gravity of Girl Child Sexual Abuse in Zimbabwe ?Towards Creating a Culture of Prevention?

  Girl Child Network, 2005

  Though women, men and boys can be victims of gender-based violence, girls are more vulnerable to abuse because of their subordinate status in terms of gender and age. Since 1998, the Girl Child Network (GCN) has tackled over 20,000 cases of girl child sexual abuse in 6 provinces in Zimbabwe. The nature and extent of the abuse covers rape, incest, virginity testing and forced marriages.
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  Land Reform and Human Rights in Contemporary Zimbabwe: Balancing Individual and Social Justice through an Integrated Human Rights Framework

  Elsevier, 2004

  Land distribution and access to land are key issues in Zimbabwe. In recent years, nearly all of the country's commercial farm land has been re-designated, leaving most farm workers dislocated from their farm villages. The government of Zimbabwe argues that the land reform programme is needed to achieve historical and social justice.
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  When Sharing Female Identity is not Enough: Coalition Building in the Midst of Political Polarisation in Zimbabwe

  Routledge, 2004

  Since independence in 1980, the women's movement in Zimbabwe has grown in quantity and quality. This article examines the diversity in the women's movement, focusing on the Women's Coalition which was set up in 1999.
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  Housing development and women’s right to land and property

  Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 2005

  The Women Advancement Trust (WAT) in Tanzania carries out various initiatives related to land rights, affordable housing, and inheritance rights. This report presents lessons learned from a housing and shelter development initiative.
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  Violence Against and Trafficking in Women as Symptoms of Discrimination: the Potential of CEDAW as an Antidote

  2005

  How can measures to tackle trafficking in women be strengthened? This paper reviews the main debates, conventions and laws relating to trafficking in women in the Asia-Pacific region and suggests that the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) be used to unify the different approaches.
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  Freedom for women: mainstreaming gender in the South African liberation struggle and beyond

  Oxfam, 2005

  As a result of women's activism, non-sexism became a key goal of the national liberation struggle in South Africa. During the negotiations for democracy, women drew on their experience of the years of struggle to ensure that gender equality was enshrined in the constitution, and that an array of gender machinery was put in place to mainstream gender in the new state.
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  Your justice is too slow: will the ICTR fail Rwanda’s rape victims?

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  Throughout the Rwandan genocide, widespread sexual violence, directed predominantly against Tutsi women, occurred in every prefecture. Thousands of women were raped and many died as a result of the brutality. Yet on the tenth anniversary of the genocide, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has handed down only 21 sentences.
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  Women are Citizens Too: the Laws of the State, the Lives of Women

  United Nations Development Programme, 2002

  The term citizen, ?Al Mouwaten? is gaining significance in official statements and documents, in the press, and in public discussions in many parts of the Arab world. The idea of citizenship has been successfully drawn on by some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as a means of pressing for greater equality for women in the region.
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  The Politics of State Structures: Citizenship and the National Machinery for Women in South Africa

  African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2004

  The National Machinery for Women was established in South Africa after the 1994 elections, largely as a result of the political pressure generated by the Women's National Coalition. Through tracking one particular piece of legislation - the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act - this paper analyses the effectiveness of the National Machinery for Women in South Africa.

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