3. Identifying, Accessing and Collating Existing
Human Rights Reports
During the course of the research, over 500 reports were collected relating to the human right
situation in Zimbabwe. These reports are broken down into a number of sub-categories:
• Organised Violence and Torture – Pre-Independence
• Organised Violence and Torture – Post-Independence
• Organised Violence and Torture and elections
• Organised Violence and Torture and Land
• Organised Violence and Torture – Psychological/Psycho-social
• Legal and Constitutional Considerations
• Legislation
• Judiciary and the Criminal Justice System
• Media and Repression
• Refugees and Migrancy
• Social and Economic Violations
• Food Security and Agriculture
• Gender and Human Rights Violations
Electronic and hard copies have been collected of over half these reports and a draft electronic
database has been collated, with hyperlinks between the 50-page index of reports and the available
reports that have been collected. This material is available on CD-ROM. It is intended that this
resource will be further developed as we access more of the ‘hard copy’ material, which we intend
to scan and make electronic copies of. A full listing and copies of the report will be subsequently
made available to Zimbabwean civil society.
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