Gender Based Violence (GBV) is still critical in Zimbabwe with one in every three women facing violence throughout their lifetime, UN Women Country Representative Delphine Serumaga has said. Addressing the media in the capital on Thursday, Serumaga underlined the need for people to start speaking and
In most developing countries, the poorest women have the least power to decide whether, when or how to become pregnant and these women have the least access to quality care during pregnancy and childbirth, UNFPA State of World Population Report 2017 has noted. In a press
Mass media has a huge responsibility to educate the public on anything, therefore should make sure they publicize accurate information, seasoned journalist, Ish Mafundikwa has said. Speaking at a media sensitization workshop in Kadoma, last week, Mafundikwa who is the UNFPA Communications Officer said journalists not to
The issue of contraception has caused so much debate in society amid fears that much of the problems facing women today including cervical cancer, low libido and fertility challenges among others are direct effects of using modern birth control methods. Worsened by Registrar General, Tobaiwa Mudede's
Teenage pregnancies remain a huge problem in Zimbabwe with rural and apostolic sect girls the most affected, according to Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr David Parirenyatwa. Officiating at the launch of the National Teenage Fertility Study which coincided with the launch of National Adolescent
Women’s rights activists say the issue of child marriages cannot be divorced from the economic situation in the country which is forcing most young girls into early marriages and only self-help projects can help curtail this problem. Most families in the rural areas a hardly getting
“I was married off to my current husband at the age of 16. I did not know him as I was given as compensation to appease the avenging spirit of a man who was said to have been murdered by my great grandfather,” said Tariro
It takes real men to be responsible as the saying goes. With early child marriage becoming a daily dosage for local tabloids, there is need to involve men in the fight against this heinous practice. Men have been urged to respect and take responsibility for the
CENTENARY- CHILD marriages have been globally condemned but resistance has been noted in some pockets. At Bedwood farm, about six kilometers from the small farming town of Centenary, about 60 kilometres outside Harare, marriages, including those involving children, are seen as blissful and anything short of
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