Statement on World Water Day
CHRA joins the world today in commemorating World Water Day under the theme valuing water. The theme comes at a time when water has become a scarce resource in Harare Harare City Council failed to...
View ArticleAttack at Heal Zimbabwe Offices
Today at 12:47 Heal Zimbabwe was besieged by four unidentified people (2 women and 2 men) who threatened unspecified action and concerted unrelenting brutal action against the organisation for what...
View ArticleBy-elections remain banned as ZEC resumes activities
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced that it will resume voter registration and other related field work at the start of April but by-elections still remain suspended. Electoral...
View ArticleCommemoration of the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning...
Today, the National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) joins the rest of the world in commemorating the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations...
View ArticleCrisis Coalition disturbed by attack at Heal Zimbabwe Trust offices
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition notes with huge concern the continued maneuvers by the State to unleash thugs against civic society organisations. Our concern follows an attempt by well known...
View ArticleZLHR Statement on the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning...
On the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) calls upon the state to take...
View ArticleERC Response to ZEC Press Statement on Resumption of Electoral Activities
The Election Resource Centre (ERC) notes the press statement issued by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) on the 23rd of March 2021. In the statement, the Commission notifies the public of the...
View ArticlePro-Democracy Campaigners Arrested for Spray Painting Graffiti on Walls Over...
ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) members on Wednesday 24 March 2021 arrested two pro-democracy campaigners and charged them with causing malicious damage to property and criminal nuisance after they...
View ArticleStatement on the Demand for a Clear Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution Plan
We, the undersigned civil society organisations spearheading the People’s Vaccine Campaign ZW, commend the Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ) for procuring some initial batches of vaccines for its citizens...
View ArticleZINARA Exposed
The recent allegations of corruption levelled against former ZINARA Chief Executive Officer have exposed the unlawful practices by the Roads Authority of contracting companies to repair and maintain...
View ArticleProposal confirms city of Harare water as toxic
Lack of trust in municipal water has seen a rise in the consumption of bottled and borehole water in Harare, causing plastic pollution and over-extraction of underground water. Borehole and bottled...
View ArticleMugabe’s Deceit Exposes ZINARA
The Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) rebuff the claims by ZINARA that it has not received correspondence from CHRA requesting release of figures of the disbursed funds to the City of...
View ArticleZESN Welcomes Resumption of Voter Registration
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) commends ZEC for adhering to the dictates of the law as espoused in the Electoral Act on the need for continuous voter registration. ZEC announced the...
View ArticleZEC’s Continued Suspension of Elections Worrisome
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) and the Election Resource Centre (ERC) welcome the announcement by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to resume some electoral processes including...
View ArticleNhimbe Trust Decries Zimbabwe’s Intention to Enact a Patriotic Act
The Government of Zimbabwe has announced that it is drafting the Zimbabwe Patriotic Bill, which amongst other things, aims to criminalise and prescribe stiff punishment for citizens who “campaign...
View ArticleWater disconnections an affront to human rights: BPRA
Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has berated the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) for enforcing the water disconnection program arguing that it is a violation of residents’ fundamental...
View Article‘Women must start now to prepare for 2023 elections’
With national elections expected in 2023, electoral stakeholders have already turned their attention to women’s inclusion in those electoral processes, as a means to achieve more female inclusion in...
View ArticleNgadziore Set Free as Judge Keeps Mamombe and Chimbiri in Jail
HIGH Court Judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi on Friday 26 March 2021 granted RTGS$5 000 bail to Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) leader Takudzwa Ngadziore, who had been in remand prison for 28...
View Article‘Male politicians using quota system to abuse women’
The Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) has said the special quota that reserved an additional 60 seats in Parliament for females must be abolished, as some male politicians took advantage of...
View ArticleChilonga Revisited – Bill Watch 19 / 2021
Revisiting the Chilonga Story It has become plain over the last few weeks that the full story behind the recent controversy over the Government’s plans for the development of the Chilonga area has yet...
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