22 Provincial Location: Number of Beneficiaries of ZLHR Legal Support ZLHR Annual Report 2014 Number of HRDs assisted by ZLHR and Charges Faced This litigation was undertaken as part of ZLHR’s improved Access to Justice programme. The programme area engaged in strategic human rights litigation that has an impact on the wider community, benefitting more people beyond the primary litigant in a specific case. The cases taken up fall into three main categories/thematic areas, namely: i. Constitutional litigation: focuses on bringing cases before the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe, challenging unconstitutional laws and arbitrary decisions and administrative conduct inconsistent with the Constitution; ii. Strategic impact litigation: focuses on legal action to challenge arbitrary decisions by state functionaries that have the effect of violating fundamental human rights. The strategic litigation normally has a wider impact beyond the primary litigant for the case. There is a specific focus, through this category of litigation, on the realisation of social, economic and cultural rights; iii. Anti-impunity litigation: focuses on launching civil claims against state and non-state actors who, through their actions that include use of torture, assault, malicious prosecutions and persecutions against individuals, violate fundamental human rights. ZLHR strongly believes that, in the absence of agreement by state and non-state actors to engage positively and constructively to review, reform and strengthen policy, laws and administrative practices, litigation is the best method to foster constitutionalism, breathe life into the Constitution, and improve compliance, accountability, and respect for the rule of law.