even though 2005 was an election year and 2006 was not. This also showed a steady increase in human rights violations in each year from the time that the Forum started issuing these reports. The only exception being 2004, where there was a decrease in human rights violations. All these reports can be accessed through our website. Special Reports The Forum issued ad hoc and special reports that dealt with pertinent issues during the year. To access the report itself please click on the link if you are online. Exploring transitional justice options in contemporary Zimbabwe (January 2006). This report dealt with issues of transitional justice in Zimbabwe. The main objective of the report was to open up the debate on transitional justice to the rest of the country. The debate had already begun in August 2003 with a symposium in Johannesburg. The report looked at the options available to Zimbabwe for there to be peace and justice after a transition even though there seemed to be no transition in sight at the time and in the near future. An analysis of Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum legal cases 1998 - 2006 (June 2006) The legal cases report was an analysis of the Forum’s Public Interest Unit legal cases in order to ascertain the level of success in the cases that the organization brought to Zimbabwean Courts as well as to rebut the assertion by Government that there were no human rights violations in Zimbabwe. The cases brought to court and won by the Forum were living proof that there were not only human rights violations in Zimbabwe but also that one arm of the Government, the Judiciary had actually looked at the facts and accepted that people’s rights had been and were being violated. This report shows that the Forum had won more than 90% of the cases it brought to court, which cases were reported in the MPVR’s and are recorded in the Research unit 6