Zimbabwe LAWA Fellow 2002-2003 L.L.B. Hons., University of Zimbabwe L.L.M. Hons., Georgetown University Law Center Independent Consultant Work Phone: 263-4-794784 Email: tmugadza01@yahoo.com

Affiliations:  Law Society of Zimbabwe

Profile:

Ms. Mugadza is currently practicing as an Advocate with Harare Law Chambers, with a view to setting up a practice that advances women’s rights. She also acts as the Consultant Director of the Family Support Trust Clinic, part of Harare Central Hospital. The clinic medically examines sexually-abused children and prepares medical reports for use by the police during investigations and in prosecuting offenders

Ms. Mugadza is a founding member of Feminist Political Education Project, a network for Zimbabwean feminists within and outside of formal civil society. She serves as a consultant on women’s rights and the law, as well as a general development consultant.

LAWA Experience:

Ms. Mugadza completed her graduate research in her paper entitled, “States’ Compliance with CEDAW – an Analysis of Zimbabwe’s Legal Framework for Women’s Access to and Control of Land.” Ms. Mugadza completed her fellowship internship at Oxfam America, an organization dedicated to international policy research, where she studied the impact of U.S. agribusiness on small farmers in developing countries. She participated in the 2003 Georgetown Leadership Seminar, an invitation-only conference recognizing leaders international affairs.

Additional Experience:

From 1997-1998, Ms. Mugadza worked as a Projects Lawyer for the Legal Resources Foundation. She then spent four years as a Legal & Advocacy Officer in the Musasa Project. She has been involved in Women’s Action Group, the National Women’s Constitutional Conference in 1999, and has served as a women’s representative on the National Constitutional Assembly in 2000.

From 2001-2002 Ms. Mugadza served on the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coordinating Committee. She was both a researcher and the Deputy Director for the Women in Parliament Support Unit during that time.

Following her graduation from the LAWA program, Ms. Mugadza returned to Zimbabwe to work as a consultant with various women’s organizations, notably to assist with revival on Musasa Project’s lobby for Domestic Violence legislation. Presently the legislation is in its second reading in the House of Assembly.

Publications:

Contributing Writer, The Handbook of Women, Psychology, and the Law. Andrea Barnes, Editor.

Contributing Writer, Gender Violence: Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre and Network Training of Trainers Manual, 1998.

“Women as Victims and Perpetrators of Crime: United Nations Information Service Report”, 1998.