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Under ZLHR’s special projects, four media forums were organised, reaching
out to 136 journalists (80 males and 56 females) in 2016 on four thematic
issues, namely, voluntary male medical circumcision, reform of the Public
Health Act, self-testing kits and intellectual property. The media forums
did not only ensure that journalists remained focussed, but that they had
an in-depth understanding of topical issues. Media forums also continued
to play an advocacy supporting role for the institution on issues of access
to treatment and social service delivery for key populations (lesbians, gays,
bisexuals, transgender and intersex, people living with HIV/AIDS, prisoners
and sex workers). There was increased media coverage of these issues after the
media forums as participants put into practice their acquired knowledge. The
content was more than satisfactory in covering human rights and advocacy
issues with acceptable accuracy, especially on information that was shared by
the Ministry of Health at such forums.
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Interactions included referring cases of human rights violations to the
Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission as well as strategic networking
meetings to discuss human rights issues of concern. Some of the cases that
lawyers brought to the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission involved two
families of former farm workers facing internal displacement in Zimbabwe.
Throughout the year, ZLHR also continued to strategically engage the
Commission by providing updates on cases of human rights violations of
concern that remained outstanding, such as the continued disappearance
of Itai Dzamara. As part of the overall CSO strategy on engaging critical
stakeholders in the United Nations Universal Periodic Review processes,
ZLHR and the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum also invited the
Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission to participate in the public debate
held in Harare on 30 August 2016 to increase awareness of the process to
members of the public, as well as other stakeholders.
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