ZHRC 2015 Annual Reports
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- Dec 31, 2015
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- 2008 & Beyond
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This report was compiled by the Secretariat of the Commission represented in the various programme units with the guidance and direction of members of the Commission.
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- Dec 12, 2019
ZHRC 2016 Annual Report
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2016
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- 2008 & Beyond
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The year under review was not without its fair share of challenges. Funding constraints have meant that the ZHRC continues to operate from only two offices Countrywide making it inaccessible to the larger populace.
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- Dec 12, 2019
ZCTU Constitution (2015)
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- Dec 31, 2015
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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One of the objectives of the Congress is to represent the Zimbabwe labour movement in international fora and promote friendship, cooperation, solidarity and fraternal understanding with other trade union movements, progressive institutions and mass organizations whose aims and principles coincide with those of the Congress
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- Nov 26, 2019
Labour Law Reform Brochure
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- Nov 30, 2017
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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The theme in this campaign is Harmonisation of Labour Laws to comply with International Labour Standards'. Kindly find below a summary of the shortcomings in our labour law and the workers' demands.
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- Nov 26, 2019
Constitution Watch 5 2019 Legality of Searches by Soldiers
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- Feb 28, 2019
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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A search of a person’s home or property is an infringement of their right to privacy,guaranteed by section 57 of the Constitution.
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- Nov 25, 2019
Constitution Watch 2 2019 Internet Shutdown
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- Jan 19, 2019
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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In this bulletin we shall examine the legality of the Internet shut-downs against the background of the Constitution, international law and the Interception of Communications Act.
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- Nov 25, 2019
Statutory Instruments January 8 November 2019 List
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- Nov 8, 2019
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS OF 2019
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- Nov 25, 2019
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.
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- Nov 21, 2019
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.
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- Nov 18, 2019
ZIM NGO Forum 2017 Annual Report
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- Nov 12, 2018
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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This report presents the work of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum for the period beginning January 2017 to December 2017.The report takes into account the strategic pathway which drove the organisation and the operational challenges it faced together with its members.
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- Nov 5, 2019
“Resolute action to immediately revive the grassroots structures?” Or Crimes Against Humanity?
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- Date recorded
- 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.
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- Apr 11, 2019
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.
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- Apr 11, 2019
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.
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- Apr 11, 2019
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.
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- Apr 8, 2019
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.
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- Apr 8, 2019
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.
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- Apr 8, 2019
Perils and Pitfalls-Migrants and deportation in South Africa
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- Date recorded
- Jun 5, 2012
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Displacements
- Politics & Governance
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South Africa receives more asylum seekers than any other country in the world with people mainly coming from Zimbabwe, the DRC, Burundi, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Somalia, as well as from countries further afield to escape poverty, insecurity and political turmoil.
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- Apr 8, 2019
Hard Times Nov 2011
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- Nov 2, 2011
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
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Residents of Matebeleland and Bulawayo are facing particular challenges within a greater Zimbabwean context that remains very difficult for all low income families. Households scattered throughout Matebeleland are already dealing with severe hunger.
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- Apr 8, 2019
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.
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- Apr 8, 2019
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.
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- Apr 8, 2019
“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.
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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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- 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.
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- Apr 3, 2019
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.
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- Apr 3, 2019
October Monthly Conflict Report
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- Oct 31, 2015
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- 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
January 2017 Conflict Update Report 1
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- Jan 30, 2017
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
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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
Early Warning Manual Training Module
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2016
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- 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
Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
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- 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
ZPP February2015 MMR
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- 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.
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- Feb 19, 2019
ZPP Sept 2015 MMR
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- Sep 30, 2015
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- 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.
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- Feb 19, 2019
ZPP MMR March 2015
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- 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.
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- Feb 19, 2019