Court Orders Ex-CZI Boss Zizhou to Pay U.S.$180,000 for Sexual Harassment
FORMER Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) chief executive Farai Zizhou has been ordered by the High Court to pay his ex-personal assistant Rita Marque Mbatha US$180 000 damages for sexual harassment. This follows a spirited fight by Mbatha over the past two decades after she was sexually harassed by Zizhou during her time of employment […]
16 Days of Activism – Addressing the Pandemic of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Against Women and Girls
A report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) focused on the largest study of the prevalence of violence against women. The report was on behalf of a special working group of the United Nations, and it revealed that across their lifetime, one in three women are subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate […]
Subtle
The word subtle should never sit with the word harassment. They are not friends, they have never been and will never be. As a matter of fact, I will like to believe “subtle” feels “harassed” whenever it is used side by side with “harassment”. Having established that there is nothing about harassment that is subtle, […]
Police Arrest Abusive Harare Teacher
POLICE in Harare have arrested Micheal Freeman Chingwaru (39), a teacher at Einstein Tuition Centre for violently assaulting a student at the private school. The arrest follows a national public outcry after a video of Chingwaru physically assaulting an unidentified male student went viral on social media Thursday. In the video, captured in a classroom […]
Sarah Everard Case Pushes Brits To Learn How To Stop Street Abuse
The murder of Sarah Everard has led to a spike in demand for training on how to help if you see someone being harassed on the street, course providers in Britain said, as her killer was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. Everard’s abduction from a residential street in London earlier this […]
African Sex Workers Face Digital Abuse As Pandemic Pushes Them Online
Kenyan sex worker Elizabeth Otieno shudders each time her cellphone buzzes with a new notification. The device may have become a lifeline in helping her move her work online during the COVID-19 pandemic, but after a client secretly recorded their virtual sex session and leaked it onto the internet, every phone alert sends Otieno into […]
WHO’s Tedros Under Donor Pressure To Act Quickly On Congo Sex Scandal – Diplomats
The head of the World Health Organization is coming under U.S.-led pressure to act quickly on a damning report on a sexual assault scandal that has engulfed it and other aid agencies in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Western diplomats say. More than 80 aid workers, a quarter of whom were employed by the WHO, […]
Govt to Prosecute Rape, Gender-Based Violence Offenders
The federal government has vowed to deal decisively with the perpetrators of rape and other gender-based violence in the country. The Vice President, Prof Yemi Osibanjo, made this known yesterday in Abuja at the official launch of USAID’s Momentum Country and Global Leadership. The vice president was represented by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster […]
Gender-Based Violence Leading Cause of School Dropouts in Kenya
Gender-Based Violence has been singled out as the major contributing factor to girls dropping out of school in Kenya, particularly this year when thousands of girls failed to sit for their national examinations in primary school. Statistics released by the Ministry of Education in March show that 12,424 Class 8 candidates did not turn up […]
Global Firms Lag On Sex Harassment, Women-Friendly Policy
Most big firms are failing to ban sex harassment at work or enact policies that let mothers work flexibly, a global workplace equality index found on Thursday, highlighting the obstacles women face at work. Fewer than half of firms’ policies directly address sex harassment, despite years of #MeToo campaigns that show the extent of abuse […]
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