Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa
(LAWA) Fellowship Program

Graduate Research Papers

Excerpts from 25 of the papers listed below have been published in a book entitled
"Voices of African Women: Women's Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania"
edited by Johanna Bond (2005).

2006-2007 LAWAs

Linda Dumba

Using International Human Rights Instruments
to Realize Women’s Property and Inheritance Rights
in the context of HIV/AIDS in Namibia

Amelia Vukeya

Polygyny and HIV/AIDS in South Africa:
The Fatal Clash between Custom and Women’s Human Rights in the Era of HIV/AIDS

2005-2006 LAWAs

Mushahida Adhikari

The Role of International Human Rights in Enforcing South Africa's Constitutional
Obligation to Ensure Women's Access to Reproductive Health Care

Sindile Kubheka

Workplace Sexual Harassment in Swaziland: A Human Rights Analysis

Bongekile Nxumalo

The Vulnerability of Women to HIV/AIDS in Swaziland:
International Women's Human Rights as Part of the Solution

2004-2005 LAWAs

Thabisile Langa

The Economic Empowerment of Women to Address Gender Inequalities in Swaziland

Lindiwe Ngcamphalala

Domestic Violence: An International Human Rights Issue in Swaziland

Pritima Osman

Domestic Violence and HIV/AIDS: A Major Threat to Women in South Africa

2003-2004 LAWAs

 Phumzile Dlamini

The Draft Constitution of Swaziland:
Its Compliance with International Standards and
Its Effectiveness in Addressing Gender Inequality in Marriage

 Jennifer Joni

Women and HIV/AIDS in the Informal Workplaces of South Africa:
The Failure of the Law to Protect Domestic Workers

 Ruvimbo Masunungure

Reforming Zimbabwe’s Customary Marriage Law:
a Prerequisite for Preventing Women’s Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS

 2002-2003 LAWAs

Mercy Garekwe

The Economic Status of Women in Botswana as an International Human Rights Concern

 Keneilwe Lekoba

Domestic Violence Against Women as an International Human Rights Issue in Botswana

Teresa Mugadza

A Case Study of Zimbabwe's Compliance with CEDAW in Relation to Women's Access to Land

 Tandazwa Ndita

Inheritance Rights and Rural Women in South Africa

2001-2002 LAWAs

 Jamesina King

Women’s Land Ownership and Property Rights in Sierra Leone

Ntibidi Mathilda Rampete

Black Women in the Legal Profession in South Africa

 Sibongile Sigodi

The Role of Women in Conflict and Conflict Resolution: The Example of South Africa

2000-2001 LAWAs

 Jacqueline Asiimwe-Mwesige

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back:
The Women’s Movement and Law Reform in Uganda from 1985 to 2000

Scolastica Jullu

Sexual Violence in Tanzania: Sexual Offences Act No. 4 of 1998 as a Case Study

 Naome Kabanda

Women’s Access to and Control over Land in Uganda: A Tool for Economic Empowerment

Mande Limbu

Gender Equality and Higher Education in Tanzania

Jane Magigita

Implementation of Affirmative Action in Tanzania’s Parliament:
An Assessment of Reserved Seats for Women

 Harriet Diana Musoke

Shattering the Glass Ceiling: What Women in Uganda Need to Make it to the Top

 1999-2000 LAWAs

Sarah Lubega

Emma Ssali Namuli

Women and HIV/AIDS in Uganda

Evelyn Nassuna

Women and Employment Discrimination in Uganda's Formal Sector:
Facing Challenges and Forging Change

 1998-1999 LAWAs

Barbara Ayesu

Prison Reforms for Ghanaian Female Prisoners

Bernice Sam

Discrimination in the Traditional Marriage and Divorce System in Ghana:
Looking at the Problem from a Human Rights Perspective

 1996-1997 LAWAs

 Grace Bitariho

Reproductive Rights: The Uganda Perspective

Monica Magoke-Mhoja

Impact of Customary Inheritance Law on the Status of Widows and Daughters in Tanzania:
A Challenge to Human Rights Activists

Property in Marriage Relations: Its Legal Implications for Women in Uganda

Land Tenure Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

 Maria Tungaraza

Women’s Rights and the AIDS Epidemic in Tanzania

Customary Sexual Practices and the National Policy on HIV/AIDS/STDs in Tanzania

 1995-1996 LAWAs

 Hadija Ally

Sexual Violence Against Refugee Women in Tanzanian Camps

Dora Byamukama

Giving Ugandan Women "The Master Key":
Using Legal Strategies to Increase Women’s Access to Higher Education

Hilary Gbedemah

Female Religious Bondage: A Ghanaian Case Study

Gloria Ofori-Boadu

Ghanaian Women, the Law, and Economic Power

 Regina Rweyemamu

Judicial Activism and Gender Rights in Tanzania: The Task Ahead

Kulsum Wakabi

Domestic Violence: Strategies for Combatting Wife Battery in Uganda

1994-1995 LAWAs

Algresia Akwi-Ogojo

Protecting the Girl-Child from Sexual Abuse: The Experience of Uganda

 Angela Dwamena-Aboagye

Polygamy, Equality and the Gender Debate: A Comparative Study of Ghana and the United States

Addy Lymuya

The Criminal Justice for the Victim of Child Sexual Abuse in Tanzania Mainland Courts

 Sheila N.Y. Gyimah

Attitudes Towards Victims of Rape That Affect the Reporting, Prosecutions, and Convictions for Rape:
The Need for Law Reform in Ghana

 Salma Maoulidi

Rethinking Property: Women and Matrimonial Property Rights in Tanzania

Women and the Political Process in Tanzania

The Legal Status of Women in Tanzania: An Overview

 1993-1994 LAWAs

Beatrice Duncan

Marital Rape as a Form of Domestic Violence and the Need for Law Reform in Ghana

Esther Mayambala

Changing the Terms of the Debate to Resolve the Polygamy Question in Africa

Women and HIV Transmission in Uganda: An Evaluation of Safe Sex Strategies

Fitnat N-A. Adjetey

Female Genital Mutilation: Tradition or Torture?

Religious and Cultural Rights: Reclaiming the African Women’s Individuality
The Struggle Between Women’s Reproductive Autonomy and African Society and Culture

The Advancement of Women’s Rights: The Way to African Economic Development

Regina Mutyaba

A Comparative Study of the Status of Women Under the Law of Divorce
and Their Economic Status in Uganda, Britain and Bangladesh

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