Human Rights Archive Zimbabwe

On the 10th of December 2014, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) and its partners joined the Global Community in commemorating the International Human Rights Day. The International Human Rights Day is commemorated globally each year on 10th December.

During the first half of March 2015, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) conducted events to commemorate the International Women’s Day (IWD) culminating in the hosting of a Stakeholder Seminar on 13 March 2015 in Harare.

The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission hosted the International Human Rights Day Commemorations on Friday the 8th of December 2017. The event was held at Takashinga Cricket Club in Highfield. International Human Rights Day is celebrated each year on 10 December globally since 1948 when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted.

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.

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.

The report is about the importance of Memory and objectives and outcomes of Community healing.

The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) joins the rest of the continent in commemorating Africa Human Rights Day. The day is commemorated annually on 21 October and provides an opportunity for Africans to reflect and recommit on the solemn declaration undertaken by the African leaders and the African people to promote and safeguard human and peoples’ rights on the continent.

The report unveils the crisis which happened in the 1980's which consisted of Curfews in Matebeleland,detentions, tortures and political kidnappings, disappearances and threatened treason trials. It basically tells the story about Zimbabwe's internal conflicts and how the signing of the Unity accord in 1987 ended the disturbances.

A major human rights and humanitarian crisis has been developing inZimbabwe for the past several years and has reached a critical juncture.Relative to other trouble-spots in Africa, the nature and dimensions of thecrisis in Zimbabwe are simple. There are no rebel forces fighting for controlof resources or territory, no secessionist movements seeking to break away,no religious conflicts, and no collapse of state institutions. Rather,Zimbabwe is a classic case of an authoritarian government clinging topower and using whatever methods it considers necessary to ensure itscontinued survival.