2. About GALZ GALZ: an association of LGBTI people in Zimbabwe was established in 1990 to promote, represent and protect the rights and interests of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans-gender and intersex (LGBTI) community in Zimbabwe. GALZ’s vision is to have a just society that promotes and protects human rights of LGBTI people as equal citizens in Zimbabwe. The organization, through 28 years of resilience and development, at times under extremely hostile and violent circumstances has amassed considerable experience in community mobilization, advocacy, skills building and sensitization for the LGBTI cause. GALZ has shown great resilience within a homophobic environment and continues to build partnerships within civil society, traditional/religious groups, health care practitioners, journalists and policy makers, in addition to the broader society. GALZ is a member of many other consortiums and alliances locally, regionally and internationally from which it routinely draws technical support as well as encouragement to continue its mission despite external environmental challenges. GALZ has been highly effective in providing evidence and other information around the needs, challenges and violations of the LGBTI community in Zimbabwe to a number of allies and stakeholders for improved advocacy and program outcomes. GALZ has been able to reach out to the LGBTI community in Zimbabwe and provide support to this community over the years. As a result of this relationship GALZ has been able to mobilize the community to report violations and seek legal support from the organization and other partners such as the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights with whom GALZ has worked with closely addressing reported cases. GALZ has documented violations directly from individuals and indirectly from other sources such as newspapers, online platforms and other whistleblowers. GALZ verifies the information given in the reports and does an assessment to determine the best response for every case. Each case is recorded separately and compiled into the violations report annually. An analysis of the state of human rights violations against LGBTI persons in Zimbabwe (2011-2017) 3