Zimbabwe: No justice for the victims of forced evictions 29 assistance and cooperation to do so. In order to ensure that any sanitation facilities proposed do not pose a public health risk in an urban context, the government should seek technical assistance, including expert advice, to ensure that current housing and stands and all future housing and stands, have access to adequate water and sanitation facilities which are appropriate to the location, accessible to all without discrimination and consistent with the human rights to adequate housing, health, and water. Further, the provision of adequate water and sanitation must address the particular needs of children, women and vulnerable groups. 4. Establish security of tenure ™ Immediately stop all forced evictions in Zimbabwe. ™ Introduce legislation to guarantee a degree of security of tenure for all, based on international law and standards. 5. Promote housing self-help schemes ™ Take specific steps to support people’s self-help initiatives on housing, such as Housing Cooperatives, including by facilitating the work of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) involved in housing, and ensuring that legal and technical barriers faced by the poor are minimised. ™ In seeking to address the right to adequate housing the government should allow donors to work with NGOs and communities within an overall human rights housing framework. 6. Ensure provision of humanitarian aid for those in need ™ Allow humanitarian organisations access to all populations in need of emergency shelter and other humanitarian aid. 7. Promote and protect livelihoods Recognising that unemployment in Zimbabwe is currently at approximately 80 per cent and there are very few options for the majority of people to earn a living, the government must not impede and should seek to support the efforts of individuals to secure an adequate standard of living through participation in the informal economy: ™ Immediately end the police harassment of street vendors and small and micro businesses. Any police action to address illegal activities such as foreign exchange trading must not violate human rights, including the right to work and the right to an adequate standard of living. ™ Remove onerous requirements and reduce the financial cost of acquiring licences to engage in vending or petty trading and ensure clear information is available on how to apply for a vending licence. Amnesty International 8 September 2006 AI Index: AFR 46/005/2006