State Of Human Rights Report 2017
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- Date recorded
- May 23, 2018
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- 2008 & Beyond
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The year 2017 proved once again that the human rights violations in Zimbabwe are hardly sporadic violations but are systematic with state apparatus playing a key role. The interdependence nature of human rights was further reaffirmed. As the economic meltdown continued, social unrest increased. The police were the easy tool for the state to deal with social unrest as they continued to use heavy-handed tactics to deal with vendors and silence dissenting voices.
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- Feb 14, 2019
Bulletin No 120 Role of the Media
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- Date recorded
- Aug 31, 2016
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
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This bulletin explains the role of the media in a democratic society. Media is the cornerstone of any democracy. The term media is derived from the word medium, meaning mode or carrier. It is intended to reach and address a large target group or audience. Media influences society in a number of ways.
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- Feb 14, 2019
GTF312 2013 Annual Report (1)
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2013
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- 2008 & Beyond
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The goal of the programme is to strengthen human rights in governance and transparency. Activities involve public education; training of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs), service institutions and community leaders; legal advice provision and litigation; advocacy and lobbying.
- Date added
- Feb 14, 2019
THE ECONOMIC COSTS OF POLICE BRUTALITY IN ZIMBABWE
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- Date recorded
- Aug 31, 2016
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
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This study investigates the direct and indirect economic costs of police brutality on victims in Zimbabwe, from events related to the social uprising between July and August 2016. Establishing the economic costs of police brutality provides the basis for determining requisite compensation for victims’ loss of earnings; medical and hospitalization expenses; funeral expenses and for the dependants’ loss of maintenance.
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- Feb 14, 2019
Legal resources foundation 2015/16 Annual report
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- Date recorded
- Jun 30, 2016
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- 2008 & Beyond
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Report of the trustees of the Legal Resources Foundation for the year ended 30 June 2016 which includes auditors report and financial statements.
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- Feb 18, 2019
Legal Resources Foundation 2014 /5 Annual report
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- Date recorded
- Jun 30, 2015
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- 2008 & Beyond
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Report of the trustees of the Legal Resources Foundation for the year ended 30 June 2015 which includes auditors report and financial statements.
- Date added
- Feb 18, 2019
Legal Resourcces Foundation 2013/2014 Annual Report
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- Date recorded
- Jun 30, 2014
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
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Report of the trustees of the Legal Resources Foundation for the year ended 30 June 2014 which includes auditors report and financial statements.
- Date added
- Feb 18, 2019
LRFZim Annual Report 1984 /85
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- Date recorded
- Jun 30, 1985
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- 2008 & Beyond
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Report of the trustees of the Legal Resources Foundation for the year ended 30 June 1985 which includes auditors report and financial statements.
- Date added
- Feb 18, 2019
LEGAL Publications catalog 2014
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- Date recorded
- Jun 30, 2014
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
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Legal Publications Catalogue showing Zimbabwe Law reports produced by LRF since 1985
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- Feb 18, 2019
What do Zimbabweans see as state responsiveness 17 October 2018 (1)
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- Date recorded
- Oct 17, 2018
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- 2008 & Beyond
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The match between citizens’ aspirations and the promises made by political parties comes to fore most strongly when elections are pending. The presumption is that the parties contesting an election have been building their manifestos in a careful dialogue with their members, as well as finding ways to persuade the electorate at large to have confidence in the manifesto.
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- Feb 18, 2019
Zacro 2008 annual report
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2008
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
The report has a situational Analysis of Zimbabwean prisons and an Outline of ZACRO programs and activities during the year 2008.
- Date added
- Feb 19, 2019
ZLHR 2015 Annual Report
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2015
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
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The report contains the vision, mission and values of ZLHR to gether with the strategic framework.
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- Feb 19, 2019
ZLHR 2014 Annual Report
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2014
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
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In 2014, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) continued to shape the human rights and legal discourse of the country, relying in large part on its core interventions and expertise, which have stood the test of time, whilst drawing on the potential of the new Constitution, which had come into effect in May 2013.
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- Feb 19, 2019
ZPP January MMR 2018.
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- Date recorded
- Jan 31, 2018
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
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There was a 24% increase of violations from 186 cases in December to 245 violations in January. The majority of violations were around the forced surrender of voter registration slips to record serial numbers by mostly Zanu PF members and activists.
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- Feb 19, 2019
ZPP MMR Jan 2016
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- Date recorded
- Jan 31, 2016
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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Protests and protests against protests were recorded in the month of July 2016 in Beitbridge, Harare, Bulawayo and Victoria Falls. From July 1 Beitbridge residents and cross border shoppers went on massive demonstrations against the imposition of a ban on imported goods as stipulated in Statutory Instrument (SI) 64 of 2016; the protests turned violent resulting in the torching of a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority warehouse and 36 people were arrested.
- Date added
- Feb 19, 2019
ZPP MMR Feb2016
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- Date recorded
- Feb 28, 2016
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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This report shows partisan distribution of food aid continuing. Though the instances of this are less than in previous months, even one instance of this would be worrying as the government is mandated by the Constitution to provide for and protect all its citizens.
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- Feb 19, 2019
ZPP MMR June 2016
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- Date recorded
- Jun 30, 2016
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Riots
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In the month of June Zimbabwe witnessed an escalation in protests mostly driven by non political party actors. Some of the protesting groups included the Occupy Africa Unity Square movement which is a group of citizen activists founded by the disappeared Itai Dzamara in 2014.
- Date added
- Feb 19, 2019
ZPP MMR July 2016
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- Date recorded
- Jul 31, 2016
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Riots
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Protests and protests against protests were recorded in the month of July 2016 in Beitbridge, Harare, Bulawayo and Victoria Falls. From July 1 Beitbridge residents and cross border shoppers went on massive demonstrations against the imposition of a ban on imported goods as stipulated in Statutory Instrument (SI) 64 of 2016; the protests turned violent resulting in the torching of a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority warehouse and 36 people were arrested.
- Date added
- Feb 19, 2019
ZPP April MMR 2015
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- Date recorded
- Apr 30, 2015
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Elections
- Trauma
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This report covers recorded incidents of civil and political rights violations from the ten provinces of Zimbabwe for the month of April 2015. The report also highlights the food situation in the provinces and focuses on how food and other aid continue to be used as a political tool.
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- Feb 19, 2019
ZPP MMR March 2015
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- Date recorded
- Mar 31, 2015
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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This report covers recorded incidents of civil and political rights violations from the ten provinces of Zimbabwe for the month of March 2015. The report also highlights the food situation in the provinces and focuses on how food and other aid continue to be used as a political tool.
- Date added
- Feb 19, 2019
ZPP Sept 2015 MMR
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- Date recorded
- Sep 30, 2015
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
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The report stresses how the political environment continues to be stressed with various coercion phenomena manifesting around several sticky issues thus support or starve.
- Date added
- Feb 19, 2019
ZPP February2015 MMR
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- Date recorded
- Feb 28, 2015
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- 2008 & Beyond
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In this report ZPP highlights the risks that gold panners face at Kitsiyatota in Bindura as they try to eke a living. When ZPP team arrived at the site they were mobbed as gold panners thought they were ‘sponsors’. The gold panners tried to ‘sweet talk’ our team claiming that by just investing $100 a ‘sponsor’ would make a profit of about $800.
- Date added
- Feb 19, 2019
Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2011
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- 2008 & Beyond
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This publication contains the "Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework", which were developed by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises.
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- Mar 4, 2019
Early Warning Manual Training Module
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2016
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
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This Training Toolkit is a guide for Human Rights Monitors training. The guide provides an overview of the practice of citizen journalism and early warning and early response systems. Human Rights Monitors will learn different ways of assessing the socio-political and economic environment that can potentially cause conflicts within communities.
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- Mar 4, 2019
January 2017 Conflict Update Report 1
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- Date recorded
- Jan 30, 2017
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
This report is a compilation of emerging conflicts and rising tensions in Zimbabwe, with a particular focus on rural communities. While the report may not be exhaustive, it records current conflict trends and their causes. It identifies different types of human rights violations within different communities.
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- Mar 4, 2019
October Monthly Conflict Report
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- Date recorded
- Oct 31, 2015
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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This report is a compilation of emerging conflicts and problem trends from selected districts in the country. The report identifies current conflict trends, their causes and suggested community protection systems. It identifies different types of conflicts and human rights violations within different communities to support rapid response and early warning needs by law enforcement agencies and conflict transformation and peacebuilding agencies.
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- Apr 1, 2019
Diamonds in the Rough: Human Rights Abuses in the Marange Diamond Fields of Zimbabwe
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- Date recorded
- Jun 30, 2009
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Children
- Trauma
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Zimbabwe’s armed forces, under the control of President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), are engaging in forced labor of children and adults and are torturing and beating local villagers on the diamond fields of Marange district.
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- Apr 3, 2019
Sleight of Hand: Repression of the Media and the Illusion of Reform in Zimbabwe
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- Date recorded
- Apr 30, 2010
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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The report emphasizes the the government of Zimbabwe should take immediate steps to end continuing abuses against the media as part of a broader effort to create the necessary constitutional and electoral framework envisaged in the GPA. Media freedom, an elemental human right that was also promised by the parties to the GPA, is urgently needed as a precursor to the conduct of free, fair, and credible elections that can truly reflect the political will of Zimbabweans.
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- Apr 3, 2019
“They Beat Me like a Dog” Political Persecution of Opposition Activists and Supporters in Zimbabwe
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- Date recorded
- Aug 31, 2008
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
- Summary
This report describes abuses by ZANU-PF that continue to take place despite ongoing negotiations between the two parties. Hundreds of MDC activists who fled the violence in the weeks before the June 27 runoff remain in hiding while “war veterans” and youth militia continue to terrorize villagers in the rural areas.
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- Apr 3, 2019
The Marange Diamond Fields Report Oct 2011
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- Date recorded
- Oct 31, 2011
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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The discovery of significant alluvial diamond deposits in the Marange area of eastern Zimbabwe [Manicaland Province] in June 2006 should have been a means of salvation for the virtually bankrupt country after ten years of chaos that saw world record inflation and the nation brought to its knees. Instead, it has led to greed, corruption and exploitation on a grand scale, the use of forced labour – both adults and children - horrifying human rights abuses, brutal killings, degradation of the environment and the massive enrichment of a select few.
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- Apr 8, 2019