20 (5) Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote Universally Recognised Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1998. (6) Resolution On The Protection Of Human Rights Defenders In Africa 74. ACHPR /Res.69(XXXV)04 http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/resolutions/rec74.html (7) Hartwig Schafer, the World Bank’s representative in Zimbabwe, reported in Zimbabwe's economic fall unprecedented 'in peacetime', Globe and Mail, 27 July 2005 (Reuters News Service). (8) UNICEF estimates of children aged 0-17 who have been orphaned by AIDS by 2005. www.unicef.org/infobycountry/zimbabwe_statistics.html#25 (9) World Food Programme, Where we work – Zimbabwe, http://www.wfp.org/country_brief/indexcountry.asp?country=716 (10) UNDP, Human Development Report 2006, p285. The Human Development Index measures: (i) healthy life expectancy at birth; (ii) knowledge (literacy and education); (iii) a decent standard of living. (11) UNDP, Human Development Report 2006, p290. The Human Development Index measures: (i) healthy life expectancy at birth; (ii) knowledge (literacy and education); (iii) a decent standard of living. (12) Ibid, p307 (13) Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, www.rbz.co.zw/about/inflation.asp (14) United Nations, Zimbabwe 2006 Consolidated Appeals Process. (15) The majority of former farm workers were not allocated land under the government’s fast-track land reform. (16) Amnesty International, Zimbabwe: Power and Hunger – violations of the right to food, 15 October 2004, AI Index: AFR 46/026/2004. (17) Interview with Juliet Sithole, Gender Coordinator with the General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe, February 2007. (18) United Nations, Zimbabwe 2006 Consolidated Appeals Process. (19) In May 2005, the government of Zimbabwe embarked on a programme of mass forced eviction known as Operation Murambatsvina (Restore Order) which left an estimated 700,000 people without homes or livelihoods or both. Operation Murambatsvina first targeted informal businesses. (20) Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, The economic impact of the clampdown on the informal economy, code named Operation Restore Order/Murambatsvina, 28 June 2005. (21) Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Zimbabwe to Assess the Scope and Impact of Operation Murambatsvina by the UN Special Envoy on Human Settlement Issues in Zimbabwe, 22 July 2005, p24. (22) Amnesty International, Zimbabwe: No justice for the victims of forced eviction, 8 September 2006, AI Index: AFR46/005/2006. (23) Amnesty International interview with micro-lending organization in Masvingo, April/May 2006. (24) Amnesty International, Zimbabwe: No justice for the victims of forced evictions, 8 September 2006, AI Index: AFR 46/005/2006. (25) See UN ICESCR, General Comment No 18, paragraph 20. (26) Zimbabwe National Vulnerability Assessment Committee, Zimbabwe Emergency Food Security Assessment, April 2003.