Title | Date added | Template | Date recorded | Category | Summary |
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AU Letter | Feb 14, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jan 10, 2019 |
| A letter to the AU Chairperson stating the work of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO forum. It also highlights the gravity of Human rights situation in Zimbabwe, State attacks on family and Attacks against human rights defenders and National Human rights institutions. |
Amnesty International annual report 2017/18 | Feb 14, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Dec 31, 2018 |
| The Amnesty International Report 2017/18 shines a light on the state of the world’s human rights during 2017. The foreword, five regional overviews and a survey of 159 countries and territories from all regions document the struggle of many people to claim their rights, and the failures of governments to respect, protect and fulfill human rights. |
LRFZim Annual Report 1985/86 | Feb 18, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jun 30, 1986 |
| Report of the trustees of the Legal Resources Foundation for the year ended 30 June 1986 which includes auditors report and financial statements. |
LRFZim Annual Report 1986/87 | Feb 18, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jun 30, 1987 |
| Report of the trustees of the Legal Resources Foundation for the year ended 30 June 1987 which includes auditors report and financial statements. |
LRFZim Annual Report 1987/88 | Feb 18, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jun 30, 1988 |
| Report of the trustees of the Legal Resources Foundation for the year ended 30 June 1988 which includes auditors report and financial statements. |
LRFZim Annual Report 1989/90 | Feb 18, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jun 30, 1990 |
| Report of the trustees of the Legal Resources Foundation for the year ended 30 June 1990 which includes auditors report and financial statements. |
LRFZIM Annual Report 1988/89 | Feb 18, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jun 30, 1989 |
| Report of the trustees of the Legal Resources Foundation for the year ended 30 June 1989 which includes auditors report and financial statements. |
LRFZim Annual Report 1990/91 | Feb 18, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jun 30, 1991 |
| Report of the trustees of the Legal Resources Foundation for the year ended 30 June 1991 which includes auditors report and financial statements. |
LRFZim Annual Report 1991/92 | Feb 18, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jun 30, 1992 |
| Report of the trustees of the Legal Resources Foundation for the year ended 30 June 1992 which includes auditors report and financial statements. |
LRFZim Annual Report 1992/93 | Feb 18, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jun 30, 1993 |
| Report of the trustees of the Legal Resources Foundation for the year ended 30 June 1993 which includes auditors report and financial statements. |
LRFZim Annual Report 1993/94 | Feb 18, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jun 30, 1994 |
| Report of the trustees of the Legal Resources Foundation for the year ended 30 June 1994 which includes auditors report and financial statements. |
Religion and Politics in Zimbabwe 18 September 2018 | Feb 18, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Sep 18, 2018 |
| There is a common assumption that the Apostolic churches, the “Vapostori”, represent a “captured” constituency for ZANU-PF when it comes to elections.2 This is undoubtedly a story with some truth to it, but rarely examined in any analytical fashion. |
Are Zimbabweans pollarised 1 December 2017(1) | Feb 19, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Dec 1, 2017 |
| Afrobarometer surveys on Zimbabwe frequently run into criticism about both the methodology and the findings. This was the case with the public release of the Round 7 (2017) survey results. The methodological confusion was answered by the Afrobarometer itself (Howard & Logan. 2017), but another issue emerged from the criticism. |
Chaotic, blurred and uncertain (4)(2) | Feb 19, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Nov 30, 2017 |
| The Research and Advocacy Unit and the Mass Public Opinion Institute conducted a study to examine active citizenship in Zimbabwe, with a major focus on women and youth. Using all the six rounds of the Afrobarometer data from 1999 to 2014 the study looked at “risk aversion” focusing on the risk taking and risk aversion behaviour of Zimbabweans. |
An analysis of the recent political developments in Zimbabwe 22 December 2017 | Feb 19, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Dec 22, 2017 |
| This is the second time in this country’s history that the country has been precipitated into a constitutional crisis. The first was in 1965 with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) by the Smith government, and second is the coup that took place in November 2017. 1Whilst both looked innocuous at the beginning, the long-term consequences might not be so. |
ZPP MMR Jan 2016 | Feb 19, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jan 31, 2016 |
| 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. |
ZPP MMR Feb2016 | Feb 19, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Feb 28, 2016 |
| 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. |
ZPP MMR March 2015 | Feb 19, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Mar 31, 2015 |
| 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. |
ZPP Sept 2015 MMR | Feb 19, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Sep 30, 2015 |
| The report stresses how the political environment continues to be stressed with various coercion phenomena manifesting around several sticky issues thus support or starve. |
Rural Land Act [Chapter 20 18], 2003 | Feb 27, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Mar 31, 2004 |
| AN ACT to provide for the acquisition of State land and the disposal of State land; to provide for the control of the subdivision and lease of land for farming or other purposes; to provide for limiting of the number of pieces of land that may be owned by any person and the sizes of such land, and for prohibiting or restricting the rights of non-residents to own, lease or occupy land in Zimbabwe, and to provide for other matters incidental to and connected with the foregoing. |
HEAL ZIMBABWE Report on NPRC Public hearings | Mar 4, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Apr 30, 2016 |
| On the 18th of December 2015, the Zimbabwean Government gazetted the National Peace and Reconciliation (NPRC) Bill .This is in line with Sections 251, 252, and 253 of the Zimbabwean constitution that provides for the establishment of an Independent Commission known as the NPRC. The major aim of the public hearings was to collect the views of communities on the NPRC Bill but the task was comprised by a lot of technical, procedural and logistical challenges. |
TIZ Daily Lives and Corruption:Public opinion In Zimbabwe | Mar 5, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Dec 31, 2011 |
| The survey probes public willingness to engage with the fight against corruption. Transparency International believes it is crucial to present the public’s perspective on corruption – for it is they who suffer its direct and indirect consequences. |
Honour amongst thieves | Mar 5, 2019 | Promotion of truth | May 6, 2014 |
| The report talks about Constitutionalism and Investment in Zimbabwe whereby On the 13th February, 2009, President Mugabe purported to swear into office 35 Ministers and, on the 19th February, 2009, a further six Ministers, bringing the total to 41, ten more than were permitted by the Constitution, and agreed in the GPA. As such, the appointments of these ten additional Ministers were unconstitutional, unlawful, and void – a literal case of executive excess. |
Idasa Love,Cholera Mbeki and Mugabe | Mar 5, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Dec 31, 2000 |
| LOVE IN A TIME OF CHOLERA: MBEKI’S RELATIONSHIP WITH ROBERT MUGABE (2000 - 2008) The report highlights the MDC has long been suspicious of any claim by Thabo Mbeki to be an honest broker in the Zimbabwe crisis, having raised concerns in this regard from the moment South Africa showed itself willing to endorse the fraudulent elections of 2000. |
The Extent of Political Violence in Zimbabwe
| Apr 1, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jul 13, 2001 |
| Organised violence and torture are integral features of Zimbabwean political life, and have been since the early 1960s.This paper discusses the current violence in Zimbabwe, and outlines the major features of this violence in the context of violence in Zimbabwe generally. |
Youth Militia in Zimbabwe | Apr 1, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Sep 2, 2004 |
| This paper examines the phenomenon of youth militia in Zimbabwe, and contrasts this use of the youth with the views and opinions of ordinary young Zimbabweans |
Organised Violence and Torture:
A Zimbabwean Case Study
| Apr 1, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Nov 28, 2000 |
| The use of Emergency Powers and the Law and Order (Maintenance) Act was continued by the Mugabe government, but extended considerably by the Presidential Powers Act, and always finally the use of formal impunity and pardons to cover human rights violations. There remains a consistent pattern in Zimbabwe: of periods in which gross human rights violations are permitted and even encouraged, followed by the formal excusing of such violations by impunity. |
Compensation for gross human rights violations: Torture and the War Victims Compensation Act.
| Apr 1, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Dec 30, 1998 |
| This present paper will first analyse the problems involved in compensating victims of human rights violations, summarising the international perspective. It will then turn to a summary of the situation in Zimbabwe, detailing what is known here in Zimbabwe about the victims of gross human rights violations, and then examining these findings with respect to the War Victims Compensation Act(1980), and its provisions and procedures. |
The Perpetrators of Gross Human Rights Violations in Zimbabwe from February 2000 to March 2003.
| Apr 1, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Aug 31, 2003 |
| The violence that has afflicted Zimbabwe since the Constitutional referendum has received considerable international attention, mainly due to remarkable documentation from the press, the media and human rights groups. |
COMMISSIONING JUSTICE
TRUTH COMMISSIONS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE | Apr 1, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Apr 30, 2010 |
| The paper analyses the practice with respect to criminal prosecutions and amnesty of the 40 truth commissions established around the world between 1974 and 2010. |