✓ In addition, the Secretariat and member organisations deployed a team of monitors and lawyers to observe and assist victims of the post-election violence in Harare’s Central Business District (CBD), Dzivarasekwa, Highfields, Chitungwiza, Waterfalls, Kuwadzana and surrounding areas; ✓ Citizen reports received via the Ziso/Ilihlo platform; ✓ Human rights monitors collected reports on human rights violations across the country; ✓ The Forum’s Public Interest Unit; ✓ General reports from walk in clients; and ✓ In order to ensure a coordinated response to cases of organised violence, members operating on the ground came together to share and verify information as well as to coordinate responses. Secondary sources Secondary sources of information included: ✓ A review of reports by the regional and international observer missions; and Reports from the Forum’s member and partner organisations; ✓ Verified media reports; and ✓ The Forum convened the third human rights policy and reflective meeting on the 19th of September 2018 at Holiday Inn Hotel in Harare. The meeting focused on the 2018 elections from a human rights perspective. Some of the issues raised in the presentations are included as part of this report. Legal framework for elections in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe runs a system of harmonized elections, that is, all three elections are held simultaneously: presidential, legislative and local elections. This year’s elections were polling station-based meaning that voters cast their vote at the polling station at which they are registered. Elections in Zimbabwe are conducted in accordance with standards set out in domestic, regional and international laws governing elections. 11