Work with Us – Program Officer
August 14th, 2023Organization: Feminist Voices Zimbabwe Position : Program Officer Reporting to: Creative Director Status: Full Time (4 days per week) Deadline : 15 September 2023 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ About Feminist Voices Zimbabwe: Feminist Voices Zimbabwe is a non-profit organization co-creating feminist and queer...
Continue readingPRIDE FAIR JUNE 2023
June 22nd, 2023The planning of The Pride Fair commenced immediately after the Safe Abortion Fair . We started creating awareness of the event two months in advance where those interested in attending fill in a google form with their details and that...
Continue readingA FEMINIST APPROACH TO PROPERTY SHARING: WHY ZIMBABWEAN WOMEN SHOULD READ THEMHORA JUDGEMENT.
May 19th, 2023In 1970, Emmaculate Mhora, a woman now aged 65 moved in with Govati Mhora. In 1971 theywere customarily married under the Customary Marriages Act 5:07 (then known as the AfricanMarriages Act). In 1982 Govati Mhora married another woman, who moved...
Continue readingA PROFESSION SILENCED PART 2: THE LEGALIZATION OF SEX WORK IN ZIMBABWE
May 19th, 2023Sex Soko only wanted people to call him a sex worker. He was not a whore and he was not whatmost people mean when they say prostitute in Zimbabwe. Sex workers currently make up a largepart of the informal economy,...
Continue readingWHY THE LAW HAS FAILED TO END CHILD MARRIAGE
May 19th, 2023In 2013 Zimbabwe adopted the amended Constitution. While this is a part of welcomed lawreform the problem was that various pieces of legislation did not correspond with this newConstitution (particularly around gender equality in marriage laws, age of consent and...
Continue readingS V MAREYA AND THE STATES VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN
May 19th, 2023On the 26th June 2018, Nora Kanyemba arrived home from work to find her children Rutendo andMukudzei (8 & 2 years old) distressed. Mukudzei cried that her private area was painful and whenNora started to change her diaper she noticed...
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