3. Activities and achievements 3.1 Activities During the period under review the consortium monitored the role of state agents and non-state actors in human rights violations. The Consortium contributed to institutional, legislative and constitutional reforms in Zimbabwe through various activities and iniatives. Reviews of the draft Constitution prior to the referendum created an understanding of the document and its implications on human rights promotion and protection, governance and transparency. Enhanced capacity to monitor human rights violations was developed for both personnel in the consortium and stakeholders that collaborate in this endeavour. Public and stakeholder engagements were made on issues such as the death penalty as a constitutional issue; the criminalisation of torture; LGBTI rights; youth and politics; legislative processes and minority rights. Campaigns carried out included the “End hate campaign” to secure public acceptance and tolerance of sexual diversity and the LGBTI community; the Anti-Torture campaign to encourage government to ratify the UN Convention Against Torture and the Anti-Death campaign seeking to ban the death penalty. Public participation was facilitated through various human rights events such as the International Day of Peace, International Human Rights Day, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture; Africa Human Rights Day and 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence. During these commemorations marches were held, press statements were issued, solidarity statements were made by CSOs and commitments were made for the realisation of themes that marked the commemoration of the events. Numerous information, education and communication materials were produced and disseminated to policy makers, strategic stakeholders and members of the public through printed reports and consortium member websites, radio programmes and as inserts in daily and weekend newspapers. These facilitated a high voter turnout during the referendum process where women with diverse political interests were unanimous on women’s Constitutional priorities and at least 75% of their demands were incorporated into the new Constitution. Training workshops, community dialogues, strategic and outreach 4