Press Statement Calling for the Return of Missing MDC Alliance Members
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) is deeply concerned about the alleged abduction of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance Member of Parliament Joana Mamombe and two (2) MDC...
View ArticleWomen in Masvingo Struggling to Access Health Facilities: Highlight...
Women who are part of Heal Zimbabwe Community Action Accountability Teams (CAATs) in Bikita, Zaka and Gutu have raised alarm over the challenges being faced by women in the three districts. As part of...
View ArticleLockdown Update 14 May 2020
Introduction On the 19th of April, Zimbabwe extended its lockdown with 14 days as a way of escalating measures of reducing the spread of COVID-19. The country’s extension illustrates the government’s...
View ArticleCall for Transparency & Accountability on Women’s Rights Violations
Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ), representing non-partisan women’s rights organizations and activists in all the 10 provinces of Zimbabwe condemns the abduction, enforced disappearance and...
View ArticleTorture has no place in modern day Zimbabwe
The Women’s Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) strongly condemns the abduction and torture of three young women leaders namely Hon Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai...
View ArticleForum strongly condemns abduction and torture of MDC Alliance youth leaders
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) is appalled and registers its deepest contempt on the abduction and torture of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance Member of Parliament Joana...
View ArticleHeal Zimbabwe condemns the abduction of MDC Alliance political activists
Heal Zimbabwe condemns the abduction, torture, inhumane treatment of three MDC Alliance activists, Harare West Legislator Hon. Joana Mamombe, MDC Youth Vice Chairperson Cecilia Chimbiri and Deputy...
View ArticleMACRAD Weekly Update
On the 11th of May 2019, MACRAD conducted a discussion forum in Chiredzi Rural District Council, ward 6, Chilonga communal area, Munguni village. The discussion was a fact finding mission concerning...
View ArticleGALZ commemorates International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and...
17 May each year is set aside by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex (LGBTI) community and their allies to celebrate diversity on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and...
View ArticleMabvuku Residents Lament Chaotic Bulk Water Distribution
Mabvuku residents are mooting a legal intervention to coerce council to supply them with safe potable water amid lamentations over chaotic bulk water distribution that has seen residents relegated to...
View ArticleNewsDay journalist charged with contravening COVID-19 regulations
NewsDay journalist Rex Mphisa and Zimpapers sales representative Charles Marerwa were arrested in Dulivhadzimu, in Zimbabwe’s southern border town of Beitbridge on 15 May 2020 and charged with...
View ArticleCompetent Governance and the Fight Against Covid-19
Last Friday 8th May 2020, I came across a Covid-19 tweet by Hillary Clinton which read: “South Korea and the U.S had their first reported case on the same day. Today, South Korea has reduced daily...
View ArticleARTUZ condemns the attack of its female leader by the military
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) condemns the assault of it’s National Secretary for Gender and Welfare, Moreblessing Nyambara by a member of the military in uniform and others who...
View ArticleStatement on the Abduction and Torture of Movement for Democratic...
Section 243 (1) (d), (e) and (f) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe provides that the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission has the mandate to receive and investigate complaints of violation of human rights...
View ArticleMasvingo Lockdown Monitoring Update: 19 May 2020
Chiredzi – Twelve employees from Gonarezhou National Park have tested positive to Covid-19 virus following tests done on Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) kits at a private laboratory in Chiredzi yesterday....
View ArticleRural communities struggle to adhere to lockdown funeral limits
COVID-19 has brought significant changes in the culture and lifestyle of rural communities. The pandemic has changed the way in which people mourn and bury their loved ones as only a limited number is...
View ArticleCybersecurity and Data Protection Bill entrenches surveillance: MISA Zimbabwe...
Introduction The advent of the Internet and related technological developments have been celebrated for providing platforms for widespread and ‘unrestricted’ exercise of freedom of expression and...
View ArticleBus Queues a Ticking Time Bomb for Covid-19
The extended lockdown period coupled with the opening of industry and commerce has seen the reintroduction of long winding bus queues as the city has been hit by an acute shortage of ZUPCO buses and...
View ArticleNational Association of Youth Organizations Statement on the Abduction and...
The National Association of Youth Organizations (NAYO) is a youth umbrella body for youth organizations working in Zimbabwe the National Youth Sector Chair in NANGO. Its vision is to see a...
View ArticleMonitoring Government Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic – Update #3
Introduction As part of ongoing efforts to manage the effects of COVID-19 and flatten the curve in Zimbabwe, a series of Statutory Instruments (SI) have been gazetted. The latest SI extends the...
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