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Writing laws just for show…
Sexual Offences Special Provisions Act (1998): In Tanzania, there is only one legal frame work that addresses gender-based violence in Tanzania – the Sexual Offences Provisions Act (1998). This legal framework is not legislation against domestic violence, however, has been used to incriminate perpetrators of domestic violence. It was first implemented in the 1980s, and [...]
This is reality… :(
I read an article that stated that, “Gender inequity is the norm in Tanzania”. Wow! I didn’t even know where to go from there. The MKUKUTA (Swahili acronym for National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty) Status Report 2006 indicates that 60 percent of women believe that wife beating is acceptable as compared with 42 percent [...]
Since 1988, but we’re still fighting…
Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who took the time to read my blog last week. I wanted to clarify because I noticed that some were confused: it was not only the women attaining high positions in government that caused the violence against women in Zimbabwe, I think my last sentence was misleading, but that [...]
Economic Violence Against Women
Examining Zimbabwe’s Domestic Violence Issue through a socioecological lense Last week I shared with you the situation of domestic violence in Nigeria, and how it is one of the countries in Africa with the worst case of Domestic Violence. This week I looked at Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe caught my eye in particular not necessarily because of [...]
You better shut up ’cause that may be your only option
This week I decided to look into statistics that were available on the issue of domestic violence in Africa. The statistics were daunting! One of the most daunting of statistics that really caught my attention was that of Nigeria, where research on domestic violence showed that 50% of women have been battered by their husbands [...]
Domestic Violence in the African Context
Kenya 42% of 612 women surveyed in one district reported having been beaten by a partner; of those 58% reported that they were beaten often or sometimes. [1] Uganda 41% of women reported being beaten or physically harmed by a partner; 41% of men reported beating their partner (representative sample of women and their partners [...]
Introduction to Domestic Violence Against Women
Domestic violence also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence (IPV), can be defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. ************** The violence has many forms “I suffered for a long [...]
Under the shade