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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisHow gendered violence is used to try to silence Zimbabwe’s female politicians
Men are weaponising online abuse and physical violence to keep women’s voices out of politics
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Published in: Home: AnalysisPriti Patel’s deportations deal with Zimbabwe is putting lives at risk
Successive hard-right home secretaries have created a Home Office that prioritises immigration figures over human rights
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Published in: ourEconomy: NewsWhy is a company accused of looting diamonds back in Zimbabwe’s mines?
A Chinese-Zimbabwean military venture has been handed one of the country’s most lucrative diamond-producing blocks,...
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Published in: ourEconomyZimbabwe's new gold rush
Amid COVID restrictions, families, youths and women are flooding into the sector. Policy interventions are needed to...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationAfrican governments warned of lawsuits for maternal deaths under COVID-19 lockdowns
Exclusive: Women have died or suffered unsafe births after transport bans, while hospitals report rising equipment shortages.
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Published in: ourEconomyHow globalisation has informalised African womens’ lives
Women’s rising participation in the informal economy has seen an intensification rather than a reversal of gender inequality.
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Published in: Home: OpinionAfrican states cannot deny enforced disappearances any longer
The first hurdle towards tackling the deadly practice is getting governments to even acknowledge it.
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Published in: 50.50Blackmail, death threats and abuse: Being LGBTIQ at work in Zimbabwe
Can employers be pushed to take action on discrimination, even if the state will not?
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Published in: 50.50Alleged army rapes amidst Zimbabwe fuel hike protests go uninvestigated
When Zimbabweans took to the streets in January, women were met with sexual violence by security forces. Many are...
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Published in: 50.50Can a male-dominated legal industry achieve meaningful reforms for women?
Despite shocking accounts of harassment and discrimination within their profession, women lawyers in Zimbabwe and...
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Published in: HomeAfter Mugabe: dawn of a new error in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s new president Emmerson Mnangagwa might bring socio-economic improvements, but don’t count on him ushering...
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Published in: 50.50‘Swept under the carpet’: violence against Zimbabwe's women journalists
Women journalists in Zimbabwe have been beaten and harassed by state security. The male-dominated media largely...
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Published in: HomeZimbabwe in turmoil: from the trenches
Despite constant harassment and brutal repression, one by one all sectors of society are expressing their discontent...
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Published in: HomeDripping with blood: the Marange diamond fields
Despite numerous human rights violations in the Marange diamond fields, the area is not classified as producing...
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Published in: 50.50HIV disclosure: changing ourselves, changing others
When will policy makers, politicians and academics start to think upstream, in order to change their own and their...
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Published in: 50.50Speaking the ‘unspeakable’ through film in Zimbabwe
From socially conscious film-making to challenging the invisibility of women in the industry, pioneering Zimbabwean...
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Published in: HomeWhat is a ‘fair’ election?
The recent elections in Zimbabwe were a flagrant fraud. But analysis must not stop short at ballot rigging....
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Published in: HomeThe fields of Marange: where is the diamond money?
Local communities were supposed to reap the benefits of rich resources since Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond fields were...
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Published in: HomeTobacco farmers wiping out Zimbabwe’s indigenous forests
Following Mugabe's land reforms, Zimbabwe's farmers are turning to the booming tobacco industry to alleviate...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageNew powers won’t play by old rules
Expecting new global powers to promote human rights abroad via the United Nations assumes that they will play by the...