By Takudzwa Tondoya Southern African leaders have been urged to step up efforts to end child marriage and strengthen protection for survivors, amid warnings that without urgent action the practice could continue for another 200 years. Equality Now and its partners issued the call during the Southern
263Chat · Sexual Exploitation Rampant In Hopley The Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) national inquiry on child marriages and sexual exploitation and abuse of young girls in Zimbabwe has revealed deep rooted cases of child abuse in Harare’s Hopley suburb. In an interview with 263Chat on the sidelines
As the sun sets marking the end of another day, the mining town of Shamva suddenly comes to life. People from all walks of life including illegal gold miners, some already intoxicated fill-up the numerous nightspots in the town enjoying their daily harvests. The night clubs
Despite the existence of numerous international and regional human rights laws and conventions against child marriage, it still remains a widely ignored violation of the health and development rights of girls and young women. The scourge is prevalent in Zimbabwe, with recorded statistics of 34% of
Poverty and drought have been cited as the major drivers of child marriages in Chipinge as early marriages continue to ruin young girls’ future. Chipinge, one of the country’s hot-spots in terms of women and child rights abuse has had successive droughts since 2005 and this
Ministry of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development has committed to take onerous task of reducing poverty ,respond to high incidences of Gender Based Violence and child marriages through the implementation of programmes at grassroots level
Responding to the issues the women raised, Mnangagwa said he will see to it that his government addresses these issues ranging from gender equality, criminalization of child marriages, easy accessibility of sanitary wear, loans and equal representation of women in parliament
Poverty, gender inequality, poor access to quality education and a lack of decent employment opportunities among other social ills help perpetuate child marriage and early childbirths, a World Bank and International Centre for Research on Women 2017 report has noted. According to the report, child marriages
Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe has vowed to continue fighting against early marriages blaming it for negatively affecting the lives of African children. Speaking at a press conference organised in commemoration of the Day of The African Child, National Director of Women and Law in Southern Africa,
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