CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................5
1. Background...........................................................................................................5
2. Right to work (Article 11) .......................................................................................6
2.1 Recommendations to the government of Zimbabwe ..............................................7
3. Right to Health (Article 12) ....................................................................................7
3.1 Prohibitive health care costs ..............................................................................9
3.2 Difficulties in accessing health care facilities: safety and transport ........................9
3.3 Access to water and sanitation .........................................................................10
3.4 Inadequate housing ........................................................................................10
3.5 Recommendations to the government of Zimbabwe ............................................10
4. Violation of women’s rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful protest
(articles 2 and 7(c)) .................................................................................................11
4.1 Discrimination, sexuality baiting, discriminatory stereotyping of women human rights
defenders and denial of access to health care in police custody (articles 2(d), 7(c) and
12)) ....................................................................................................................12
4.2 Denial of access to treatment for women activists in detention (article 12) ...........13
4.3 Detention of human rights defenders including pregnant women and mothers with
small children (article 7(c) and 12) ........................................................................14
4.4 Recommendations to the government of Zimbabwe ............................................15