Title | Date added | Template | Date recorded | Category | Summary |
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Our Branches Are Broken Using the Tree Of Life Healing Method | Nov 28, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Mar 30, 2016 |
| This article assesses the effectiveness of the Tree of Life healing approach, which was one of the methodologies tried during the course of the research with a small group of survivors of the 1980s atrocities. |
Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum State of Human Rights Report 2018 | Nov 5, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Oct 16, 2019 |
| This report covers the state of human rights in Zimbabwe in the year 2018. While it is impossible to capture and record every single incident that happened in the year, the report presents and analyses key events and incidences that shaped the human rights landscape, as well as compliance,accountability and impunity. |
Anti-Impunity update | Nov 5, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Jul 16, 2019 |
| The alert highlights that failure by the government to honour court judgments in favour of victims of human rights violations by the police and the military, is actually a human rights violation. |
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 |
“Resolute action to immediately revive the grassroots structures?” Or Crimes Against Humanity? | Apr 11, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Dec 31, 2008 |
| 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. |
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. |
Only bruises on the soles of their feet:
Falanga in Zimbabwe.
| Apr 11, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jan 31, 2009 |
| 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. |
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. |
Human rights report on Zimbabwe 2009 | Apr 11, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Dec 30, 2006 |
| This report is a collaborative effort between the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (The Forum) to have a competent, national and collective human rights appraisal of Zimbabwe that can be an addition and alternative to external Zimbabwe human rights assessments. |
DAMN LIES? GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS DURING APRIL 2008 | Apr 11, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Apr 30, 2008 |
| 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. |
“NOW THE WORLD IS WITHOUT ME ”: AN INVESTIGATION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
| Apr 8, 2019 | Gender | Apr 30, 2010 |
| This was a retrospective cohort study conducted at Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, South Kivu Province. Using a non-systematic convenience sample, interviews were conducted on sexual violence survivors as they presented to Panzi Hospital requesting services from the Victims of Sexual Violence Program. |
Transitional Justice Policy Symposium Report 2018 | Apr 4, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Nov 23, 2018 |
| This report captures all the proceedings of the symposium, speeches, expert exchanges and outcomes. With QR codes scattered across the report, the reader is invited to join the dialogue, to watch the videos of the presentations and capture the full emotion of the 2018 symposium. |
LITIGATION STRATEGIES FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN AFRICA | Apr 3, 2019 | Gender | Sep 30, 2012 |
| Sexual violence is the most pervasive form of violence in many of the conflict-ridden countries in Africa and continues to remain so, through various post-conflict stages even after the conflict has ended. Violence, particularly of a sexual nature and against women, that was characteristic of a prolonged conflict, comes to be accepted as the norm and part of the culture more so than it was prior to the conflict. |
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. |
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. |
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). |
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. |
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. |
Perpetual Fear :Impunity and Cycles of Violence in Zimbabwe | Apr 3, 2019 | Justice & accountability | Mar 31, 2011 |
| 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. |
Diamonds in the Rough: Human Rights Abuses in the Marange Diamond Fields of Zimbabwe | Apr 3, 2019 | Promotion of truth | Jun 30, 2009 |
| 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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |