THE STATE OF HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT |ZIMBABWE I 2017 About The Forum The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (The Forum) is a coalition of 22 human rights organisations working towards the realisation of a society that respects all human rights in Zimbabwe. Members of The Forum Amnesty International – Zimbabwe (AI-Z), Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace – Zimbabwe (CCJP-Z), Transparency International – Zimbabwe (TI-Z), Veritas, Counselling Services Unit (CSU), Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZIMRIGHTS), Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), Civic Education Network Trust (CIVNET), Legal Resources Foundation (LRF), Justice for Children (JC), Zimbabwe Civic Education Trust (ZIMCET), Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association (ZWLA), Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU), Zimbabwe Association for Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation of the Offender (ZACRO), Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP), Non-Visible Action and Strategies for Social Change (NOVASC), Student Solidarity Trust (SST), Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR), Media Monitors (MM), and Media Institute for Southern Africa (MISA). Acknowledgements The Forum acknowledges the assistance it received from many friends and partners in compiling this report. The following organisations that are not members of the Forum played key roles in the data collection that fed into this report: Heal Zimbabwe Trust, Centre for Natural Resources Governance (CNRG), Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA), Deaf Women Included, Alive Albinism Initiative, and many other partners not named in this report, whose generosity made the production of this report possible. Special mention goes to the Zimbabwe Citizen Initiative (ZCI) for their investment in putting together the infrastructure for the Ziso/Ilihlo Human Rights Monitoring Platform and mobilizing citizens to participate in human rights monitoring. Of all the reports covered in this report, the Ziso/Ilihlo Platform documented 118. The Forum salutes various groups of human rights monitors and citizen champions who put themselves in harm’s way as they worked to report on and combat human rights violations. All this work would not have been accomplished without the support from our development partners who invest in the dignity of humanity. The Forum further applauds the role played by the Secretariat in coordinating the various documentation platforms that fed into this report and compacting thousands of pages, video footage, and audio recording to reduce them into a compact report.