Title | Date added | Template | Date recorded | Category | Summary |
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Is Torture a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? | Apr 1, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Dec 30, 1994 |
| Post Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD) has been argued to be a useful classification in dealing with stressors of an extreme nature, specifically those of a "catastrophic" nature according to Axis IV of DSM III and DSM III(R). The stressor no longer forms part of the background theory of a disorder, as is the case for many disorders, but forms the rationale for the disorder. |
Community-based rehabilitation for survivors of
organised violence: Some preliminary findings
| Apr 1, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Apr 30, 1995 |
| There is now a substantial literature dealing with the consequences of repressive violence on individuals and families (1). The literature details the effects, on individuals, of torture and violent injury, as well as the effects of exposure to violent situations, and also deals with both the short-term and long-term effects. |
An Investigation into the Sequelae of Torture and
Organised Violence in Zimbabwean war veterans.
| Apr 1, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Apr 15, 1996 |
| This report details the clinical findings from 5 months of attending the clinic at Harare Hospital.The consequences of organised violence are many and complex, and include both physical and psychological effects. Since this is a new field there are still controversies about the effects and how best to classify them. The definition of organised violence too is complex, having to cover a wide variety of causes and effects on people. |
Epidemic violence and the community: A Zimbabwean case study.
| Apr 1, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Dec 30, 1998 |
| This paper deals with the problem of epidemic violence and its consequences, most notably with the problem of torture, which is a common consequence of epidemic violence. It is located in that most violent of continents, Africa, and in Zimbabwe in particular. |
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. |
Epidemic violence and the community | Mar 5, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Dec 31, 1998 |
| This paper deals with the problem of epidemic violence and its consequences, most notably with the problem of torture, which is a common consequence of epidemic violence. It is located in that most violent of continents, Africa, and in Zimbabwe in particular. |
Can you have a reparations policy without justice? | Apr 1, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Sep 25, 1999 |
| Under humanitarian law and a series of international conventions, all gross human rights violations are argued to require legal remedy. However, in situations of epidemic violence legal remedies may require extension through a policy of reparations. There are conceptual confusions that often impair the proper formulation of a reparations policy. This paper examines these problems in the context of Zimbabwe. |
Organised Violence and Torture
in Zimbabwe in 1999
| Apr 11, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Mar 31, 2000 |
| The crisis which began in late 1997 showed little sign of abating during 1999, and all political commentators remain agreed that the severe crisis continuing in Zimbabwe shows little sign of immediate resolution. The President continued to act without consulting Parliament or with respect to the Constitution. |
Organised Violence and Torture in Zimbabwe: Harare and Copenhagen, 6 June 2000 | Apr 3, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jun 6, 2000 |
| The current report is based on information compiled from both a wide range of sources and researched locally by the IRCT delegation. The IRCT delegation visited Zimbabwe from 29 May to 6 June 2000. The delegation comprised Maria Piniou- Kalli, MD, IRCT President and specialist dermatologist, Inge Genefke, MD.DMSc hc, IRCT Secretary-General and specialist neurologist, and Soraya Usmani Martinez, IRCT Project Coordinator for Sub Saharan Africa. |
Report on political violence in Bulawayo, Harare, Manicaland, Mashonaland West, Masvingo, Matabeleland North, Matabeleland South and Midlands | Apr 11, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jul 29, 2000 |
| The report outlines several violations which happened in the various provinces against different victims |
Training nurses in the assessment and management of psychological disorders: Report of AMANI Trust’s programme in Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe.
| Apr 1, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Aug 22, 2000 |
| This report has been produced in order to summarise 5 years of training in Mashonaland Central Province. The AMANI Trust has been training nurses and other health workers in Mashonaland Central Province since 1995 and it seems appropriate to take stock of what we have learned over this time. |
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. |
Knowledge, attitudes and experiences of nurses on human rights, their violations and medical ethics in Zimbabwe. | Apr 1, 2019 | Promotion of truth | May 31, 2001 |
| This study was conducted as a preliminary to the launch of a Forensic Nurse training course, and the aim was to investigate the understanding by nurses of human rights issues in relation to nursing. The approach was similar to that used in a previous study of medical students carried out in 2000 by the Amani Trust, in conjunction with the Zimbabwe Medical Students’ Association. |
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. |
Organised Violence and Torture in the June 2000 General Election in Zimbabwe. | Apr 1, 2019 | Elections & violence | Feb 28, 2002 |
| This monograph is based on detailed observation of the election petitions held in the High Court of Zimbabwe, as well as testimonies available from victims seen during the General Election and the subsequent bye-elections. A team of researchers attended all the court hearings, making notes of all proceedings, as well as studying the case notes held by the AMANI Trust and the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum. |
Heroes in the dock | Apr 1, 2019 | Promotion of truth | May 31, 2002 |
| This present monograph concentrates upon the effects upon the witnesses who testified in the petitions. Most of these witnesses were victims of organised violence and torture during the June 2000 General Election. They were either primary victims – those who were direct victims of organised violence or torture – or secondary victims – family members or witnesses to direct violence. They were followed up after they had given their testimony, and a detailed interview conducted on their experiences during and after testimony in the High Court. |
“At the boiling point of the pain”.
Report of a pilot study examining the efficacy of psychotherapy for torture survivors.
| Apr 1, 2019 | Justice & accountability | May 31, 2002 |
| This study has been influenced by our reading of similar literatures in relation to the psychological and social effects of the trauma resulting from organised violence and torture. While we will not be reviewing that literature in depth in this report, it does seem important to note that there is a large body of literature relating both to similar experiences elsewhere in the world and also within the specifically Zimbabwean context. |
ZADHR Victims of OTV 2 9 June 2003 | Mar 5, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Jun 9, 2003 |
| This report includes case summaries, with histories, examination findings and two photographs, of incidents of violence inflicted during the week of the National Mass Action 2nd-9th June 2003. Medical reports were obtained and are available for at least 150 people who sought medical help for injuries sustained as a result of state organised violence. |
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. |
Thoughts on National Healing | Feb 18, 2019 | Gender | Dec 31, 2003 |
| The report contains issues like Dealing with complex emergencies,developing a community response ti trauma,state psycho-social support for victims of organised violence and torture as well as the identification of victims. |
THE CASE OF HENRY DOWA: THE UNITED NATIONS & ZIMBABWE UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT | Apr 3, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Jan 30, 2004 |
| In May 2003 REDRESS learned that an allegedly notorious Zimbabwean police torturer, Henry Dowa, was in Kosovo. Sources inside and outside of Zimbabwe confirmed that there were numerous serious allegations of torture linked to him, and further investigations revealed that Dowa was part of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) civilian police force (CIVPOL). |
ZIMBABWE: FROM IMPUNITY TO ACCOUNTABILITY | Apr 3, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Mar 30, 2004 |
| The Redress Trust is an international NGO whose objectives are to assist torture victims anywhere in the world, and to make accountable all those who perpetuate, aid and abet acts of torture. It has been following closely events in Zimbabwe, and with its considerable experience of the issues involved REDRESS participated in organising the August symposium and presented papers at it. |
ZIMBABWE: THE FACE OF TORTURE AND ORGANISED VIOLENCE | Apr 3, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Mar 31, 2005 |
| For the past five years Zimbabwe has been racked by an economic, social, political and human rights crisis, which no one inside or outside of the country has been able to reverse. The European Union, the United States of America and other Western nations have applied selective financial and travel sanctions against President Mugabe and other Zanu-PF leaders, and some of these powers have also made unsuccessful attempts to challenge Zimbabwe’s human rights record in international fora, including the UN General Assembly and the UN Commission on Human Rights. |
TORTURE IN ZIMBABWE, PAST AND PRESENT
PREVENTION, PUNISHMENT, REPARATION? | Apr 3, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Jun 30, 2005 |
| Zimbabwe has not acceded to the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment nor the statute of the International Criminal Court. There are a number of other specific Commonwealth declarations and principles, which were applicable to Zimbabwe before it left the Commonwealth in 2003. |
Stuffed ballots and empty stomachs | Apr 11, 2019 | Elections & violence | Jul 31, 2005 |
| This report considers the actual period of voting and the first one hundred days thereafter. |
Making Life Unbearable latest (6 December 2005) | Apr 1, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Dec 6, 2005 |
| This present study is an extension and elaboration of previous work on Operation Murambatsvina. It arose out of the need to have more in-depth information about a number of key areas in their lives and experiences of those affected by Operation Murambatsvina; namely, trauma, HIV/AIDS, legal issues, and losses. |
ZTVP Report for UN International Day in Support of VOT | Apr 1, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Apr 30, 2006 |
| This report provides a brief top-line analysis of 267 Zimbabweans who sought assistance from the Zimbabwe Torture Victims Project (ZTVP), located in Johannesburg, South Africa, over the past one and half years. In recent times, South Africa has seen an increase in the number of Zimbabweans coming into South Africa linked to the political crisis in that country. |
Psycho-Social assistance to Survivors of the Liberation War. A Report on Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe.
| Apr 1, 2019 | Promotion of truth | May 31, 2006 |
| An examination of a population of survivors more than a decade and half after the traumatic events, which indicates that no-one should be sanguine that survivors of OVT heal themselves: war veterans, activists and the politically uncommitted were all affected by the Liberation War. It seems evident that Zimbabweans, in common with all other people, do not cope well with the effects of OVT. |
Community support to survivors of OVT | Mar 5, 2019 | Memorialization | May 31, 2006 |
| This was an examination of a population of survivors more than a decade and half after the traumatic events, which indicates that no-one should be sanguine that survivors of OVT heal themselves: war veterans, activists and the politically uncommitted were all affected by the Liberation War. |
Research unit annual report 2006 | Feb 14, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Aug 20, 2006 |
| The Specific objective of the Research unit is “to document, research on, verify and publish incidents of gross violations of human rights in Zimbabwe, particularly those associated with organized violence and torture”. There are 3 types of reports that are compiled by the unit. These include Special/ad hoc reports, the human rights bulletin and the MPVR. |