LRFZim Annual Report 1984 /85
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- 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.
Human Rights NGO Forum 29 MARCH 2008 ELECTION BRIEFING PAPER
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- Mar 29, 2008
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Elections
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This briefing paper describes the pre-election environment in Zimbabwe and concludes it is not possible to hold free and fair elections under the prevailing conditions.
All Over Again : Human Rights Abuses and Flawed Electoral Conditions in Zimbabwe’s Coming General Elections
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- Mar 31, 2008
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Elections
- Politics & Governance
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On March 29, 2008, Zimbabweans will participate in presidential, parliamentary, senatorial, and local government elections synchronized for the first time, following changes to Zimbabwe’s constitution in September 2007. As the elections near, all indications are that once again the people of Zimbabwe will not be able to freely exercise their civil and political rights and vote for the candidates of their choice.
DAMN LIES? GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS DURING APRIL 2008
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- Apr 30, 2008
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
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The Human Rights Forum is issued this brief report, to compliment the reports already issued, adding to the calls for strong international action to be taken in order to ensure the integrity of the coming poll, and to call for immediate steps to be taken to protect the rights of ordinary Zimbabwe citizens to chose their leaders without coercion, and in a climate in which their basic freedoms are respected, enforced, and protected under the Constitution.
If you cant join them, beat them:Post election violence Zimbabwe 2008
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- May 5, 2008
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Elections
- Politics & Governance
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This document, and the factual assertions herein, is based on reports of the ensuing violence received from civic organisations and those published in the press.
Punishing Dissent and Silencing Citizens: The Zimbabwe Elections 2008
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- May 21, 2008
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Elections
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The 2008 Harmonised Election in Zimbabwe was arguably the most historic of the post-independence elections, as for the first time in the last 28 years the ruling party lost its parliamentary majority and the President lost the first round of the Presidential election. This result represented the culmination of a decade of political and civic opposition to a former liberation party whose legitimacy has been greatly eroded by nearly three decades of intolerant rule.
“Bullets for Each of You” State-Sponsored Violence since Zimbabwe’s March 29 Elections
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- Jun 30, 2008
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Elections
- Politics & Governance
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This report, based on investigations in Zimbabwe, describes the scale of the abuses and identifies those responsible—officials from ZANU-PF, often working through proxy forces of so-called war veterans and youth militia, backed by members of the armed forces and police. Local institutions have identified at least 2,000 beatings and cases of torture.
“They Beat Me like a Dog” Political Persecution of Opposition Activists and Supporters in Zimbabwe
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- Aug 31, 2008
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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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.
Kariba Draft Constitution
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- Sep 15, 2008
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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BILL to provide for a new Constitution for Zimbabwe and to provide for related matters.
Political Violence report 2008
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- Dec 1, 2008
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Elections
- Politics & Governance
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In this report for 2008,there are certain trends and characteristics which have been attendant on the incidents reported to the Human rights Forum which rebut the denial of ZANU PF that in most instances the violence that was reported was between over zealous youths and villagers.
Zacro 2008 annual report
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- Dec 31, 2008
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
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The report has a situational Analysis of Zimbabwean prisons and an Outline of ZACRO programs and activities during the year 2008.
The Civic Education Network Trust (CIVNET) in Zimbabwe
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- Dec 31, 2008
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- 2008 & Beyond
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Swedish Sida in Harare commissioned an evaluation to assess the impact of CIVNET’s activities and training programmes, for which they have provided funding support for the period between 2000 to 2007. An independent consultant, Ms Dren Nupen from Johannesburg, South Africa was contracted to undertake the evaluation because of her experience in the NGO sector in South Africa and the SADC region.
“Resolute action to immediately revive the grassroots structures?” Or Crimes Against Humanity?
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- Dec 31, 2008
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
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In this report, the Human Rights Forum made the very strong allegation that the Government of Zimbabwe is complicit at the least in the commission of Crimes against Humanity.
Only bruises on the soles of their feet: Falanga in Zimbabwe.
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- Jan 31, 2009
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
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Falanga is unequivocally a form of torture and constitutes a serious criminal assault under Zimbabwean law. This form of torture has become particularly prevalent in the past five years. Although falanga has been reported in previous decades, it now appears to be very widespread indeed, and almost routine, both inside and outside of places of detention.
The Global Political Agreement and the Unity Accord in Zimbabwe
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- Feb 28, 2009
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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Those with reservations about the Global political agreement frequently refer to the Unity Accord of 1987 in which the opposition party ZAPU was swallowed up by ZANU PF, as providing a salutary lesson to those who attempt to govern side by side with ZANU PF
Rights-Based Approaches to Health: Possibilities for Zimbabwe
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- Apr 30, 2009
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- 2008 & Beyond
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The right to health includes the entitlement to timely and appropriate health care and also encompasses underlying determinants of health, such as access to safe and potable water, adequate sanitation, an adequate supply of safe food, nutrition, housing and access to health-related education and information.
Diamonds in the Rough: Human Rights Abuses in the Marange Diamond Fields of Zimbabwe
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- Jun 30, 2009
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- 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.
False Dawn :The Zimbabwe Power-Sharing Government’s Failure to Deliver Human Rights Improvements
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- Aug 31, 2009
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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This report recommends a range of fundamental reforms that the power-sharing government should undertake to improve the human rights situation in Zimbabwe. Without these institutional and legislative reforms, as well as the establishment of genuine respect for the basic rights of all Zimbabweans, there can be no long-term, sustainable peace and stability in Zimbabwe.
ROUNDTABLE ON THE INCLUSIVE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE
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- Sep 30, 2009
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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The meeting was convened with a view to obtaining an informed and nuanced view, from the perspective of key stakeholders, of Zimbabwe's Inclusive Government (IG). While various large gatherings of human rights NGO's have met to consider issues relevant to the IG, it was the feeling of the conveners that these meetings have been unwieldy and that opinions expressed at these meetings often have been tempered by the institutional concerns of the various NGOs, and a frank analysis of Zimbabwe's polity has been lacking.
Human Rights Education in Medical Education
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- Oct 31, 2009
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- 2008 & Beyond
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The Report highlights issues about Human rights education in medical education, Prison Health Protection Program and Training on health and human rights in prisons.
Publication 122 (1)
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- Dec 31, 2009
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Elections
- Women
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This paper advocates that election observation should take note of the issue of gender equality in electoral processes. Women’s full and equal participation and the integration of gender perspectives into all levels of the electoral processes enhance democratic practices in elections and for this reason, election observer missions should be prepared to render an election not free and fair on the basis of significant transgressions of the electoral rights of women.
CISOMM six month report on GNU and GPA
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- Feb 1, 2010
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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The Six Month Review follows on the Annual Review which was launched in February 2010, in order to review and analyse the extent of implementation of the GPA by the IG in several critical sectors. This report, using information collected by CISOMM members in the course of their work in the field, juxtaposes the evidence of the Government’s implementation of the GPA with the benchmarks set out therein.
Healthworkers veiws on the constitution
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- Feb 19, 2010
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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This submission contains a compilation of the views of more than 400 health workers consulted by the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights about their views on the new Constitution.
Desperate lives, twilight words: How a million Zimbabweans live Without official sanction or sanctuary in South Africa
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- Mar 31, 2010
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Displacements
- Politics & Governance
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The Crisis of immigration into South Africa is a direct product of the crisis in Zimbabwe, as economic recovery in Zimbabwe is not likely to occur soon, its biggest export will remain its people.
What options for Zimbabwe
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- Mar 31, 2010
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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The central purpose of the Briefing is to consider the options open to the central protagonists in this process, within the context of the balance of power and relations of force within the country and the region, while also contextualising the international dimension.
Sleight of Hand: Repression of the Media and the Illusion of Reform in Zimbabwe
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- Apr 30, 2010
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- 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.
Zimbabwe's Multilayered crisis
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- Jun 30, 2010
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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The deteriorating economic conditions that prevailed from the early 1990s onward contributed to the rise in popularity of the MDC. Arguably, the decline began with the World Bank/IMF-inspired Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) in the early 1990s, which led to rapid de-industrialisation, growing unemployment and severe erosion of living standards.
Perpetual Fear :Impunity and Cycles of Violence in Zimbabwe
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- Mar 31, 2011
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
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This report highlights the impunity that prevails in Zimbabwe. It provides an update on illustrative cases of political killings, torture, and abductions that took place during the presidential election run-off in 2008 and in the aftermath of the elections.
The Hard Road to Reform
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- Apr 13, 2011
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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Since the signing and initiation of the Global Political Agreement in Zimbabwe in September 2008 and February 2009 respectively, the politics of the country has been convulsed with a recurring set of problems even as it has allowed for a certain political and economic stabilization. The agreement, with its attendant Inclusive Government, was set up to establish the conditions for a free and fair election.
The Marange Diamond Fields Report Oct 2011
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- Oct 31, 2011
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- 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.