The practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a form of SGBV constantly discriminatory, unjust, a violation of human rights, and violates the principles of gender equality. FGM in Zimbabwe is most prevalent among the Shangani people and is usually done to young girls from...
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights cover a wide range of topics, Sexual rights may include the right to sexual education, freedom from sexual violence and coercion, or the right to decide whether or not to have children. Reproductive rights, on the other hand, can include...
HIV AND CONFIDENCE – Being a female student who is HIV positive attracts a lot of stigma and discrimination, the perception of society towards women with HIV is that of sexual promiscuity and carelessness. The fear of being stigmatized and discriminated against by society and their...
The robot flashes amber a perpetrator’s sense of control on a locked crossroad oblivion to the consequences of his assumed entitlement a two-way lane turned into four by drivers eager to reinforce gender inequality horns cry out to what is yet to come the plight of our mothers and sisters. a daily routine between a clutch...
Over the past years, studies have shown that the number of female victim-hood to gender-based violence by the men and boys of our country is increasing at an alarming rate. This phenomenon has been hinged to various societal misconceptions and beliefs such as male dominance...
The year 2008 did not only bring hunger, starvation and suffering to the citizens of Zimbabwe but the genesis of the HIV/AIDS which saw the deaths of many people as there was no knowledge on how this could be cured or rather curbed from because...
The mental health of the Zimbabwean community at large has taken a questionable path since the advent of COVID-19. Confinements unleashed a variety of mental disorders that were so visible in the Zimbabwean Community, especially the youth community. Factors such as attention seeking, depression, stress,...
Growing up in the streets of the densely populated suburb of Mbare, Harare, chaos seemed to be the order of the day. Not a day would pass by not having witnessed our mothers and sisters harassed by the beggars seated on the roadsides. As if...
Zimbabwe has widespread epidemics of most major sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV. It is believed that one-third of new sexually transmitted infections cases usually occurs to people under 25 years of age every year, this is because university or college students are in the...
#SmartGirlsAgainstGBV #SheMatters Looking at Tertiary education institutes, A lot of girls have fear of using or seeking help regarding sexual reproductive health. These fears come due to the way how sisters and health workers in institute clinics will treat them. They are being harassed, and judged...