Symposium Report Day 2
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- Nov 22, 2018
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- Gukurahundi
- Transitional Justice
- Trauma
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Day 2 of the NTJWG Conference being in Bulawayo began with participants visiting different historical sites and heritage centres which depict Zimbabwe’s conflict history and community healing practices. Visited places include; the Entumbane Reintegration Camps sites, the Queen of Peace Roman Catholic Church and Amagugu International Heritage Centre.
ZPP MMR January 2017
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- Jan 31, 2017
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- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
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The month of January recorded many violations which were politically motivated. Most of the reported cases were harassment and intimidation of opposition political activists. Other prominent cases were those of deprivation of state sponsored food aid and inputs for farming.
ZPP MMR May 2017
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- May 31, 2017
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- Trauma
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The month of May stands out owing to violations of the right to education, the right to food and civil and political rights mainly freedom of association and assembly. This May ZPP recorded the highest number of incidences where pupils were sent away from school for failure to pay school fees or clear the previous term’s arrears.
ZPP MMR October 2017
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- Oct 31, 2017
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- Trauma
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The Report Highlights how Zimbabweans are Prisoners of fear and how the farming season has contributed to an increase in cases of intimidation and harassment as well as discrimination as cases of discrimination have increased from 21 to 31.
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.
“At the boiling point of the pain”. Report of a pilot study examining the efficacy of psychotherapy for torture survivors.
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- May 31, 2002
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- Trauma
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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.
“NOW THE WORLD IS WITHOUT ME ”: AN INVESTIGATION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
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- Apr 30, 2010
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- Trauma
- Women
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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.
“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.
2018 NTJWG Symposium Summary Report
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- Nov 23, 2018
- Category
- Gukurahundi
- Transitional Justice
- Trauma
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From 21 to 23 November 2018, over 118 delegates converged in Bulawayo for the 2018 Transitional Justice Policy Symposium which was jointly convened by the National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR). The theme of the symposium was, ‘Never Again: Setting the Transitional Justice Agenda for Zimbabwe.’
An Investigation into the Sequelae of Torture and Organised Violence in Zimbabwean war veterans.
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- Apr 15, 1996
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- Trauma
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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.
Anti-Impunity update
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- Jul 16, 2019
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- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
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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.
BVR Human Rights Violations Report
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- Feb 26, 2018
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- Elections
- Trauma
- Summary
Heal Zimbabwe through its resident human rights monitors in all the country’s 10 provinces monitored the environment during the mobile voter registration exercise. This was done with the objective of monitoring the environment and report on any cases of human rights violations as well as making referrals where necessary for redress.
Can you have a reparations policy without justice?
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- Sep 25, 1999
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- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
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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.
Community support to survivors of OVT
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- May 31, 2006
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- Trauma
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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.
Community-based rehabilitation for survivors of organised violence: Some preliminary findings
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- Apr 30, 1995
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- Trauma
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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.
Compensation for gross human rights violations: Torture and the War Victims Compensation Act.
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- Dec 30, 1998
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- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
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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.
Complex Emergencies and the Tree of Life A Community based Approach to Dealing with Trauma
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- Dec 31, 2009
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- Trauma
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A community-based approach to dealing with trauma highlights issues about Trauma and complex emergencies. This report is not concerned with describing the many ways in which trauma may be inflicted during complex emergencies, but rather to very briefly describe their effects.
DAMN LIES? GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS DURING APRIL 2008
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- Apr 30, 2008
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
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.
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
- Summary
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.
Epidemic violence and the community
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- Dec 31, 1998
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- Trauma
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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.
Epidemic violence and the community: A Zimbabwean case study.
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- Dec 30, 1998
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- Trauma
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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.
Epworth and Budiriro Report on Police Brutality
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- Dec 31, 2016
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
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This report contains the preliminary findings of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC), pursuant to an ongoing investigation undertaken into complaints alleging violations of human rights, in particular the right to freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment by COMPLAINANT A AND OTHERS in Epworth and Budiriro, in the Harare Metropolitan Province, Zimbabwe.
GALZ Report 2016 final
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- Dec 31, 2016
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
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The assessment focused on documenting the nature and extent of the state sanctioned and unsanctioned raids on GALZ. The assessment brings out the opaqueness of the raids, which demonstrates the precarious environment that GALZ operates in.
Heal Zimbabwe BASELINE REPORT ON PEACE AND RECONCILIATION PROCESSES
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- Jul 16, 2018
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- Transitional Justice
- Trauma
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A nationwide baseline study to inform diverse peace and reconciliation initiatives in Zimbabwe. A baseline study is a descriptive cross-sectional study undertaken to establish the obtaining status of a particular situation before interventions. Baseline studies are essential for project design, benchmarks establishment, monitoring and evaluation.
Heroes in the dock
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- May 31, 2002
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- Trauma
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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.
Human rights report on Zimbabwe 2009
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- Dec 30, 2006
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- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
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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.
Human Rights Update
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- Sep 22, 2017
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- Trauma
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Heal Zimbabwe recorded a total of 16 cases of human rights violations from 9 districts between the 20th of August and the 15th of September 2017.
IJR Community Healing Manual web
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- Dec 31, 2015
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- Trauma
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The manual was produced to enhance the capacity of members of the PBNZ in their peace-building work by way of a bottom-up approach that also seeks to complement the role that will be played by the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) and other local and national processes. Specifically, the manual is intended to develop the capacity of members of the PBNZ in their efforts to heal communities devastated by political violence, as well as by future instances of violent conflict, so that peace can be sustained in Zimbabwe.
Is Torture a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
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- Dec 30, 1994
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- Trauma
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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.
Is Zimbabwe Ready for Reconciliation A snap Survey Report
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- Jun 30, 2016
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- Gukurahundi
- Transitional Justice
- Trauma
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A snap survey in March 2016 to establish the level of knowledge among the Zimbabwean populace regarding the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) as the government designs enabling legislation that operationalizes the commission.
Issue 1 Reconciliation Pathways
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- Mar 21, 2018
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- Gukurahundi
- Trauma
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This paper reviews Zimbabwe’s healing reconciliation discourse and how the process could be prosecuted. This review is also a precursor to Heal Zimbabwe’s nation-wide baseline study conducted to solicit communities’ perceptions of what constitutes healing, peace and reconciliation. The baseline study establishes options for the NPRC progress indicators design and processes upon which the Commission and Civic Society Organisations (CSOs) will track achievements.
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.
Knowledge, attitudes and experiences of nurses on human rights, their violations and medical ethics in Zimbabwe.
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- May 31, 2001
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- Trauma
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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.
LITIGATION STRATEGIES FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN AFRICA
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- Sep 30, 2012
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- Children
- Trauma
- Women
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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.
Making Life Unbearable latest (6 December 2005)
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- Dec 6, 2005
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- Displacements
- Murambatsvina
- Trauma
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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.
May OVT Report 2017
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- Dec 31, 2017
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
The Forum documented violations relating to economic, social and cultural rights. The right to education continues to be violated by school authorities that turn children away over non-payment of school fees and levies.
Meltdown: Murambatsvina One Year On.
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- Aug 30, 2006
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- Displacements
- Murambatsvina
- Trauma
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Between 1991 and 2003, urban poverty trebled in Zimbabwe. It was against this background of escalating economic collapse and social disintegration that “Operation Murambatsvina” (OM), or “Discarding the Filth”, took place in mid 2005. In the space of a few weeks, 700,000 people lost their homes and/or livelihoods in a process that the UN has referred to as “indiscriminate and unjustified”. More than two million others suffered related losses as a result of the demolitions.
Memory and Community Healing
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- Nov 22, 2018
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- Gukurahundi
- Trauma
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The report is about the importance of Memory and objectives and outcomes of Community healing.
NTJWG CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY ALERT! FULL PAGE
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- Jan 14, 2019
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- Transitional Justice
- Trauma
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The report captures how the NTJWG is shocked at the the horrific developments since 14 January.There were gross violations of Human rights as well as 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.
Organised Violence and Torture in Zimbabwe in 1999
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- Mar 31, 2000
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- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
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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 the June 2000 General Election in Zimbabwe.
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- Feb 28, 2002
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- Elections
- Trauma
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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.
Organised Violence and Torture in Zimbabwe: Harare and Copenhagen, 6 June 2000
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- Jun 6, 2000
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- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
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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.
Organised Violence and Torture report Jan to March 2018
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- Mar 30, 2018
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- Trauma
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In January 2018, new victims of Organised Violence and Torture (OVT) were reported and documented from across the country. This figure includes seven incidents of infringement of political rights, five incidences of harassment and intimidation, three cases of assault and three incidences of denial of the right to food.
Organised Violence and Torture report: April to June 2018
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- Jun 30, 2018
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
The month of April also witnessed increasing tensions between the government and its employees with the government failing to respond to the concerns of workers in the public sector. This led to another strike by nurses, which compromised the right to health care. The March 2018 strike by doctors was followed by a nurse’s strike on 16th of April. Vice President Chiwenga responded by firing all striking nurses violating section 65 (2) (3) of the Constitution, which recognises the right of all employees to engage in collective bargaining with the exception of the security service.
Organised Violence and Torture: A Zimbabwean Case Study
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- Nov 28, 2000
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- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
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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.
Our Branches Are Broken Using the Tree Of Life Healing Method
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- Mar 30, 2016
- Category
- Gukurahundi
- Trauma
- Summary
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.
Peace Clubs Training Manual
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- Dec 31, 2015
- Category
- Trauma
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This Training Toolkit is a guide for Peace Clubs that will be implementing peacebuilding and conflict transformation activities in their communities. The guide provides an overview of Heal Zimbabwe Trust (HZT) activities and what the organisation seeks to achieve by implementing grassroots level peace interventions.
Perpetual Fear :Impunity and Cycles of Violence in Zimbabwe
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- Date recorded
- 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.
Prison Report 2018
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- Oct 18, 2018
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- Trauma
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The primary objectives of this study were to assess the compliance of selected prisons with international and domestic standards on conditions of detention; to consolidate the fi ndings from the prison monitoring project conducted by the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) and its membership; to make recommendations for reforms and propose key priority areas.
Psycho-Social assistance to Survivors of the Liberation War. A Report on Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe.
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- Date recorded
- May 31, 2006
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- Gukurahundi
- Trauma
- Summary
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.
Report on political violence in Bulawayo, Harare, Manicaland, Mashonaland West, Masvingo, Matabeleland North, Matabeleland South and Midlands
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- Date recorded
- Jul 29, 2000
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- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
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The report outlines several violations which happened in the various provinces against different victims
Report on the Post elections violations
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- Date recorded
- Aug 1, 2018
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- Elections
- Trauma
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This is the first report by the consortium which covers the period 1 to 9 August 2018. A total of 199 violations were documented from 1 to 9 August 2018.
Research unit annual report 2006
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- Date recorded
- Aug 20, 2006
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
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.
Shutdown Atrocities Report 6 February 2019
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- Date recorded
- Feb 6, 2019
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- Politics & Governance
- Riots
- Trauma
- Summary
The violations of human rights that started as the state’s response to mass protests on 14 January, 2019 following the increase in fuel prices immediately took a widespread systematic character, the dominant actors being the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and suspected ZANU-PF militia. The systematic and sustained nature of the violations raises fear that this is becoming a case of crimes against humanity.
Stuffed ballots and empty stomachs
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- Jul 31, 2005
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- Elections
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
- Summary
This report considers the actual period of voting and the first one hundred days thereafter.
Summary Report Day 1
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- Date recorded
- Nov 21, 2018
- Category
- Gukurahundi
- Transitional Justice
- Trauma
- Summary
The conference commenced with welcome remarks from Reverend Dr Ray Motsi (the NTJWG Thematic Leader on Memorialisation). There where also remarks from Paul Themba Nyathi, the NTJWG Deputy Chairperson standing in for the working group’s Chairperson, Aleck Muchadehama as well as a speech from Nomfundo Mogapi the Executice Director of CSVR and last but not least, remarks by the Chairperson of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission, Retired Justice Selo Nare.
Survivors Speak on TJ in Zim
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- Feb 6, 2019
- Category
- Gukurahundi
- Trauma
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This report outlines the opinions and expectations of Victims and Survivors on what should be included in a Transitional Justice Framework for Zimbabwe commissioned by the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum.
THE CASE OF HENRY DOWA: THE UNITED NATIONS & ZIMBABWE UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
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- Date recorded
- Jan 30, 2004
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- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
- Summary
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).
THE ECONOMIC COSTS OF POLICE BRUTALITY IN ZIMBABWE
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- Date recorded
- Aug 31, 2016
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
This study investigates the direct and indirect economic costs of police brutality on victims in Zimbabwe, from events related to the social uprising between July and August 2016. Establishing the economic costs of police brutality provides the basis for determining requisite compensation for victims’ loss of earnings; medical and hospitalization expenses; funeral expenses and for the dependants’ loss of maintenance.
The Extent of Political Violence in Zimbabwe
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- Date recorded
- Jul 13, 2001
- Category
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
- Summary
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.
The Perpetrators of Gross Human Rights Violations in Zimbabwe from February 2000 to March 2003.
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- Date recorded
- Aug 31, 2003
- Category
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
- Summary
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.
The Tree of Life A Community Approach to Empowering and Healing Survivors of Torture in Zimbabwe
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2009
- Category
- Trauma
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The article explores the effectiveness of the use of an empowerment workshop, called the Tree of Life, in the treatment of torture survivors. The approach is based on a survivor-to-survivor model of assistance.
Thoughts on National Healing
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- Dec 31, 2003
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
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.
TORTURE IN ZIMBABWE, PAST AND PRESENT PREVENTION, PUNISHMENT, REPARATION?
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- Date recorded
- Jun 30, 2005
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- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
- Summary
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.
Torture review
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- Dec 31, 2009
- Category
- Trauma
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Subliminal terror? Human rights violations and torture in Zimbabwe during 2008.Although human rights violations have taken place in Zimbabwe over the past three decades, the major focus in this monograph will be upon the period 2000 to 2008, with special reference to 2008.
Training nurses in the assessment and management of psychological disorders: Report of AMANI Trust’s programme in Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe.
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- Aug 22, 2000
- Category
- Trauma
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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.
Transitional Justice Policy Symposium Report 2018
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- Date recorded
- Nov 23, 2018
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Gukurahundi
- Transitional Justice
- Trauma
- Summary
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.
Trauma and Mental Health in Zimbabwe
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- Date recorded
- Nov 30, 2011
- Category
- Trauma
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This paper falls into three sections.The first section provides a brief overview of organised violence and torture in Zimbabwe, The second section ―Developing a response: learning from experience elsewhere, presents in brief the shifts in thinking in this field.
Violations Report Print Final 1 1
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- Nov 30, 2017
- Category
- Trauma
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This report is an analysis of the trends emerging from the annual violations reports compiled by the Association of LGBTI people in Zimbabwe (GALZ) between the periods 2012 to 2017. The analysis extensively draws data from a total of 170 violations extracted from 104 actual cases compiled and categorized by GALZ into 12 types. The 12 types of violations recorded are assault, threats, outing, discrimination, police harassment, Unlawful detention, disownment, blackmail, displacement, unfair labour practice, hate speech and invasion of privacy.
Women on the Run
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- Nov 30, 2006
- Category
- Trauma
- Women
- Summary
This report has been issued to coincide with the 16 days on gender activism, and concerns the organized violence and torture experienced by Zimbabwean women during the crisis that has engulfed Zimbabwe since 2000. The women described in this report have all fled Zimbabwe into exile in South Africa, and most are currently seeking political asylum.
Zacro 2008 annual report
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2008
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
The report has a situational Analysis of Zimbabwean prisons and an Outline of ZACRO programs and activities during the year 2008.
ZADHR Victims of OTV 2 9 June 2003
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- Date recorded
- Jun 9, 2003
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
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.
Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum State of Human Rights Report 2018
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- Date recorded
- Oct 16, 2019
- Category
- Elections
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
- Summary
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.
Zimbabwe Situational Analysis REPORT redesign 2
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- Date recorded
- Nov 30, 2017
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
The project aims to improve the technical capacity of Linking Organisations to promote access to HIV, health and rights services for key populations; to increase the engagement of national policy makers with Key Populations issues; and to improve processes for regional knowledge sharing and learning between Linking Organisations.
ZIMBABWE: FROM IMPUNITY TO ACCOUNTABILITY
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- Mar 30, 2004
- Category
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
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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
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- Date recorded
- Mar 31, 2005
- Category
- Elections
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
- Summary
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.
ZLHR 2014 Annual Report
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2014
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
In 2014, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) continued to shape the human rights and legal discourse of the country, relying in large part on its core interventions and expertise, which have stood the test of time, whilst drawing on the potential of the new Constitution, which had come into effect in May 2013.
ZPP July 2015 MMR
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- Date recorded
- Jul 31, 2015
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
This report is based on reports from ZPP long-term community based human rights monitors who observe, monitor and record cases of human rights violations in the constituencies they reside.
ZPP April MMR 2015
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- Date recorded
- Apr 30, 2015
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Elections
- Trauma
- Summary
This report covers recorded incidents of civil and political rights violations from the ten provinces of Zimbabwe for the month of April 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 August MMR 2018
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- Date recorded
- Aug 31, 2018
- Category
- Elections
- Riots
- Trauma
- Summary
Picking up the pieces in the aftermath of the elections
ZPP December MMR 2018
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2018
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
Human Rights violations continued on a downward trend in the month of December with 136 violations recorded, down from the 164 recorded in November. Zanu PF was responsible for most of the violations followed by the Zimbabwe Republic Police officers and Municipal police officers.
ZPP February MMR 2017
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- Date recorded
- Feb 28, 2017
- Category
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
- Summary
The report is about the floods that hit the country particularly in Masvingo, Matebeleland South and North as well as Bulawayo. They led to food shortages as crops, livestock and property were destroyed.
ZPP Food Violations Monitoring
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- Date recorded
- Oct 17, 2016
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
October 2016 reports related to discrimination and denial of food to those considered to be politically ‘incorrect’.
ZPP July MMR 2018
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- Date recorded
- Jul 31, 2018
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
The July Monthly Monitoring report contextualizes the Eve of the run up to the Harmonised 2018 elections. It was characterized by disregard of the Political parties' code of conduct.
ZPP June 2015 MMR
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- Date recorded
- Jun 30, 2015
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
This report covers recorded incidents of civil and political rights violations from the ten provinces of Zimbabwe for the month of June 2015.The month of June 2015 was filled with a number of enthralling political developments most of which have an impact on the attainment of sustainable peace.
ZPP June MMR 2018 1
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- Date recorded
- Jun 30, 2018
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
A comparative analysis revealed that human rights violations increased from 181 in the month of May to 204 in the minth of June.
ZPP May MMR 2018.
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- Date recorded
- May 31, 2018
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
There was a notable 20 percent decrease in recorded cases of human rights violations from the previous month, which should be a positive development as we go to the general election in two months’ time.
ZPP MMR August 2015
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- Date recorded
- Aug 31, 2015
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Displacements
- Trauma
- Summary
The report talks about how the political landscape of Zimbabwe continues to be awash with intolerance and bias. While members of opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) are seen on the offensive in a few of the recorded instances, in the majority of reported incidences in August the ruling Zanu PF is the dominant perpetrator, a situation that continues to repeat itself.
ZPP MMR Dec 2015
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2015
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
The report talks about how supporting the opposition is a costly ordeal and how rights are not only grossly trampled upon, but they are torn up in a thousand little pieces and thrown to the winds in Zimbabwe.
ZPP MMR May 2016
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- Date recorded
- May 31, 2016
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
The May report highlights a growing and disturbing trend of discrimination in the distribution of food aid based on political affiliation. Food aid is increasingly being used by Zanu PF leaders and activists to repress political opponents and reward supporters.
ZPP MMR Nov 2015
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- Date recorded
- Nov 30, 2015
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
The November 2015 report outlined Fear as a tool of Political Manipulation as ordinary people fear that there will be repercussions to support another party.
ZPP MMR October 2018
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- Date recorded
- Oct 31, 2018
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
The Month of October recorded a total of 235 violations. There was a rise in the violations connected to assault and most perpetrators where male affiliated to the ruling ZANU PF party.
ZPP Monthly Monitor January 2015
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- Date recorded
- Jan 31, 2015
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
This report is based on reports from ZPP long-term community based human rights monitors who observe, monitor and record cases of human rights violations in the constituencies they reside.
ZPP November MMR 2017
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- Date recorded
- Nov 30, 2017
- Category
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
- Summary
The Zimbabwe Peace project recorded an increase in Human rights violations to 190 in November 2017.Most Cases of Harassment and Intimidation were linked to the BVR exercise and the Intra-party violence within the ruling part ZANU PF.
ZPP November MMR 2018
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- Date recorded
- Nov 30, 2018
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
The report highlights how the Zimbawe Republic Police made up 25% of the perpetrators of Human Rights Violations which was one of the highest figures in 2018.
ZPP September MMR 2017
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- Date recorded
- Sep 30, 2017
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
There was an increase of Violations in September from 149 to 178 cases.There were creations of terror networks because of the violations perpetrated by Traditional Leaders.
ZPP September MMR 2018
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- Date recorded
- Sep 30, 2018
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
ZPP recorded a total of 124 cases containing 226 human rights violations showing a downward trajectory from the 266 violations recorded in August. In comparison to the previous month, there has been a spike in the cases of discrimination with the highest being reported from Midlands, followed by Masvingo, Manicaland and Mashonaland East.
ZTVP Report for UN International Day in Support of VOT
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- Date recorded
- Apr 30, 2006
- Category
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
- Summary
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.
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