Symposium Report Day 2
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- Date recorded
- Nov 22, 2018
- Category
- Gukurahundi
- Transitional Justice
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Jan 31, 2017
- Category
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- May 31, 2017
- Category
- 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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- Date recorded
- Oct 31, 2017
- Category
- 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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- Date recorded
- Sep 30, 2015
- Category
- 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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- Date recorded
- May 31, 2002
- Category
- 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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- Date recorded
- Apr 30, 2010
- Category
- Trauma
- Women
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2008
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Nov 23, 2018
- Category
- Gukurahundi
- Transitional Justice
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Apr 15, 1996
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Jul 16, 2019
- Category
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Feb 26, 2018
- Category
- 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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- Date recorded
- Sep 25, 1999
- Category
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- May 31, 2006
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Apr 30, 1995
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Dec 30, 1998
- Category
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2009
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Apr 30, 2008
- Category
- 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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- Date recorded
- Jun 30, 2009
- Category
- 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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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 1998
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Dec 30, 1998
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2016
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2016
- Category
- 2008 & Beyond
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Jul 16, 2018
- Category
- Transitional Justice
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- May 31, 2002
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Dec 30, 2006
- Category
- Politics & Governance
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Sep 22, 2017
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2015
- Category
- Trauma
- Summary
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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- Date recorded
- Dec 30, 1994
- Category
- 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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- Date recorded
- Jun 30, 2016
- Category
- Gukurahundi
- Transitional Justice
- Trauma
- Summary
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.