Rape in Zimbabwe: The need for an international intervention on human rights grounds?
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Violence and Assault
Whilst this topic can be destressing, it is very important that it is researched and investigated. If you know you are interested in examining this topic but are not sure where to start, maybe these suggestions can help:
Example violence and assault dissertation topic 1:
Rape in Zimbabwe: The need for an international intervention on human rights grounds?
The use of rape as a form of ‘legitimised’ state torture as well as a weapon of repression under the Mugabe regime has been relatively well documented. This dissertation seeks to assess what the international community could or should do within Zimbabwe to counter-act such basic abuses of human rights. In so doing it questions whether there is now an accepted precedent of the defence of human rights, particularly given recent events in Libya, for UN-sponsored military action to reinstate the human rights of some of its most vulnerable citizens.
Suggested initial topic reading:
- Blatt, D. (1991). ‘Recognizing rape as a method of torture’, NYU Review of Law and Social Change, Vol. 19, p. 821.
- McGlynn, C. (2008). ‘Rape as ‘torture’? Catharine Mackinnon and questions of feminist strategy’, Feminist Legal Studies, Vol. 16(1), pp. 71-85.
- Research and Advocacy Unit (2010). No hiding place: Politically motivated rape of women in Zimbabwe: Report. Harare: Research and Advocacy Unit and the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights.
