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The study ethically assessed the impact of inequitable land ownership patterns on women’s economic and social rights in Mumbwa district. Despite more women than men being dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods, the majority of women in Zambia do not own land due to inequitable land...

The study ethically assessed the impact of inequitable land ownership patterns on women’s economic and social rights in Mumbwa district. Despite more women than men being dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods, the majority of women in Zambia do not own land due to inequitable land...

This study aimed at empirically investigating and ethically assessing the treatment of juvenile offenders in the Zambian Juvenile Justice System (ZJJS). The Juveniles Act of the laws of Zambia and international legal instruments provide for the treatment of juvenile offenders with special care as...

This study is a review of youth rights information regarding its relationship to socio-economic development. In order to achieve the aim of the study, information was sought from Youth Alive Zambia, Human Rights Commission, the 2006 National Youth Policy, various published materials inform of...

Defilement is a social problem which affects all members of society. Statistics indicate that there is an increase in the number of defilement cases reported but very few defilement cases are prosecuted. While there are a number of sexual offences against children, defilement is the most...

Introduction: This dissertation explored the level of child rights awareness among children in selected basic schools in Lusaka District. The study was occasioned by the data which showed a considerable low level of child rights awareness among pupils despite progress made by Zambia in signing...

This study drew its motivation from the need to bring into sharp focus the challenges that lie in the effective prosecution of domestic gender based violence in general and wife battery in particular. This motivation is against a backdrop of many cases of wife battery that do not get prosecuted...

Background:The title of my study is entitled “The Gendered Inheritance: A Case Study of Intestacy among Civil Servants in selected Districts.” This study’s general objective was to explore the use of written Wills, by both women and men, in the civil service, for property distribution for...

This study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of the communication strategies employed by International Justice Mission (IJM) to curb property grabbing in Zambia. The problem of property grabbing after a spouse dies by relatives of the deceased, has been identified as a source of deepening...

Although some experts have indicated system interventions as psychologically harmful, very few researchers have attempted to explore the impact of legal societal system interventions (Ryan, Perry, 1987). With the advent of increased cases of child sexual abuse in Zambia in which many perpetrators...