CITE to launch service delivery tracking platform
The Centre for Innovation and Technology (CITE) will this week launch an online platform for tracking service delivery in Bulawayo, a development aimed at improved services in the city that prides...
View ArticleState Paranoia Plumbs New Depths in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWEAN authorities on Wednesday 4 March 2020 accused a human rights lawyer and some trade unionists of plotting to foment civil disobedience in the country after they were allegedly caught in...
View ArticleCoalition urges media to engage more on Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 2
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has engaged the media to amplify issues around Constitutional Amendment Bill No.2 in an effort to allow citizens to contribute effectively during public...
View ArticleSome animals are more equal than others: February 2020 Monthly Monitoring Report
Executive Summary The month of February recorded violations of civil, political, social and economic rights totalling 195 violations with Mashonaland Central recording the highest number of violations...
View ArticleZimbabwe Parliament Grills BAZ Over Radio Stations Licensing Criteria
The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) board on 5 April 2020 was grilled by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Information, Media and Broadcasting Services following government’s intention...
View ArticleStatement on Parliamentary Report on Wetlands Management
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) and Harare Wetlands Trust (HWT) welcome the report of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Environment and Tourism on Wetlands Management, presented to...
View ArticleWomen Floor Water Barons in Mabvuku
In a bid to deal with issues of gender based violence and inequitable access to water perpetrated by “water barons” at boreholes, women in Mabvuku have come up with mechanisms that are enabling fair...
View ArticleStatement on International Women’s Day Commemorations
As we commemorate International Women’s Day running under the theme, “An equal world is an enabled world”, ZESN calls for a multi-stakeholder approach in ensuring gender equality in democratic,...
View ArticleHeal Zimbabwe statement on International Women’s Day
Heal Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in commemorating International Women’s Day. The commemorations for this year are running under the theme “I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights”....
View ArticleCHRA Statement on Women’s Day
The Combined Harare Residents Association joins the nation and the world at large in commemorating and celebrating the World Women’s Day running under the theme “An equal world in an enabled world.”...
View ArticleIGT Statement on International Women’s Day
IThemba for Girls Trust (IGT), an organization that works to empower girls in rural communities in Zimbabwe, is joining the world in celebrating International Women’s Day under the campaign theme “An...
View ArticleVISET hosts an Open Discourse on Small Medium Enterprises and Informality in...
On Friday the 6th of March 2020, Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET), hosted an Open Discourse on Small Medium Enterprises and Informality in Zimbabwean Economy at in...
View ArticleGovernment of Zimbabwe remains ‘mum’ on Dzamara
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has failed to walk the talk in terms of respect for human rights as evidenced by their continued silence on Itai Dzamara’s continued disappearance. Dzamara,...
View ArticleWe are wasting our time reporting for duty: Mpilo Nurses
Nurses at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo have said their presence at the referral hospital no longer serves any purpose in the absence of basic and critical resources needed for the day to day...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day Press Statement
Women’s Institute for Leadership Development (WILD) joins the Global Alliance for Tax Justice and organisations around the world taking part in the Global Days of Action, March 8 – 22, 2019, to demand...
View ArticleMake taxes work for women
Women’s Institute for Leadership Development (WILD) conducted a Flash Mob at the Bulawayo Centre’s Fountain on the eve of International Women’s Day (IWD). The Flash Mob was graced by a series of...
View ArticleFalse Start to Hearing of Biti’s Appeal Against Conviction and Sentence Over...
THE hearing and determination of an appeal filed by Harare East constituency legislator Hon. Tendai Biti got off to a false start on Monday 9 March 2020 after the High Court postponed the matter to...
View ArticleZLHR Solidarity Statement on the Disappearance of Itai Dzamara
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) stands in solidarity with the Dzamara family, friends of Itai Dzamara and other peace loving Zimbabweans that are agonising over the continued disappearance...
View ArticleBCC rates hike, an onslaught on urban poor: BPRA
Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) says the 716 percent increase in tariffs and other service charges by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is an onslaught against the urban poor. This...
View ArticleCouncil Bureaucracy Stalls Construction of a Crèche for 28 Years
Warren Park residents are up in arms with the local authority for failure to complete construction of a crèche in nearly three decades. The state of art building which is meant to provide early...
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