41 7.1 The Legal Monitor Most of the articles published in the Legal Monitor in 2014 covered issues normally ignored or given peripheral treatment by the mainstream media. Such media houses in turn re-published many of these stories, thereby increasing ZLHR’s visibility and the reach of its information. Victims of rights violations – particularly from marginalised and disadvantaged communities– swamped the three ZLHR offices with requests for assistance using information gathered from the Legal Monitor and other publicity of ZLHR work in the media. A vigorous documentation and media campaign against criminal defamation and insult laws paid off after key victories in the Constitutional Court, using material collected from ZLHR, amongst others. Above: Terry Mutsvanga of Coalition Against Corruption and Kennedy Masiye of ZLHR launching a documentary film entitled Dhamu:Voices From A Tent. The 30-minute documentary captures life at Chingwizi transit camp as well as Tokwe Mukosi village Information is power – some Chisumbanje villagers holding on to copies of The Legal Monitor, ZLHR’s flagship newsletter In 2014, ZLHR produced and participated in the broadcasting of four special radio programmes in partnership with various community and commercial radio stations, namely CORAH FM, Radio Dialogue, Radio VOP and ZiFM. These included a 30-minute special documentary on the violation of rights to health, shelter and education of internally displaced persons at Chingwizi Transit Camp in Masvingo province. The broadcast programmes focused on human rights content guaranteeing economic, social and cultural rights and also sought to enhance knowledge of the provisions of the new Constitution. This resulted in ZLHR opening new avenues to reach out to communities by using alternative media platforms to share human rights messages on a total of 1,200 audio Compact Discs and some on DVDs including 200 copies of the documentary. ZLHR Annual Report 2014 7.2 Production of DVDs and Audio CDs

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