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Zimbabwe

News Items

 
  • Zimbabwean women forced to give sexual favours to survive. Pambazuka News, 29 November 2007. Miriam Madziwa writes that each time the Zimbabwe dollar tumbles, women's survival chances take a corresponding knock, as it means more sexual favours to seal deals with men, who by virtue of their jobs or connections are able to make or break women's survival attempts.
  • ZIMBABWE: Chiefs fight violence in the home. IRIN News, 17 September 2007. Traditional leaders in Zimbabwe's Masvingo Province, in the southeast of the country, are partnering with gender activists in a bid to curb domestic violence.
  • Zimbabwean targets poverty in fight against rape. Reuters, 11 September 2007. Having had some success dispelling the myth that the blood of virgins cures AIDS, Zimbabwean Betty Makoni is now also fighting what she calls a root cause of the disease -- poverty.
  • Zimbabwe Deports Two US Women Making Documentary On Rape. Voice of America, 23 August 2007. Zimbabwean authorities deported two American filmmakers Thursday after arresting them earlier this week as they were working on a documentary on rape with Girl Child Network Director Betty Makoni, a lawyer for the activist and the filmmakers said.
  • Zim refugee camp a hive of 'rape, theft'. Independent Online, 02 August 2007. Gauteng's biggest refugee centre in Marabastad has turned into a slumland where women are raped every night and where refugees - mainly from Zimbabwe - squat for months hoping to get legal documents.
  • Zimbabwe: Daughters fetch high prices as brides . IRIN News, 17 July 2007. Daughters have become a high-priced commodity in Zimbabwe, where a dowry has become a means of escaping poverty in a rapidly declining economy.

Reports

 
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15 May, 2008

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