Political and Human Rights Violations (January – March 2023) First Quarter Report (2) (1) June 8, 2023 A SHORT HISTORY OF ORGANISED VIOLENCE AND TORTURE IN ZIMBABWE (1972 – 2020) Short History of OVT Zim v2 (1) May 24, 2023
Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdepen...
R. Howard-Hassmann, "Mugabe's Zimbabwe, 2000-2009: Massive Human Rights Violations and the Failure to Protect" Human Rights Quarterly 32(2010): 898-920; FEWSNET, Zimbabwe Food Security Alert, 24 September 2008.Howard-Hassmann,R.E. Mugabe's Zimbabwe,2000-2009:Massive Human Rights Violations...
The South African government has noted with concern reports of human rights violations in Zimbabwe, where an economic meltdown has triggered widespread discontent. Source:SA red flags reports of human rights violations in Zimbabwe, but the state denies ‘war on citizens’...
1. Biased focus on the Israeli-Palestine Conflict:The UNHRC is accused of an anti-Israel bias as it passes resolutions that focus on alleged Israeli human rights violations while ignoring similar allegations from the Palestinian side everytime the council meets. ...
An economic blockade has since been imposed which, coupled with the COVID-19-19 restrictions, resulted in a sharp increase of food prices. In Zimbabwe, national hotlines continue to record increased rates of GBV and child protection violations (increase of 50% compared to pre-lockdown trend...
The social work profession is conspicuously absent from the fight against PMV and other systematic human rights violations in Zimbabwe. I propose that this apathy is due to the fact that social work in Zimbabwe is predominantly an extension of the state, with social workers therefore having ...
human rights law, namely harms and violations that are exogenous, salient and reasonably foreseeable [41]. In turn, harms from AI systems can be representational, wherein these do not necessary affect or impact specific discrete individuals but pertain to how individuals are represented, read and ...
This Report analyzes politically motivated and food-related human rights violations in the run up to the 27 June run-off of 2008. Since the release of the ZPP Post Election Violence Report No. 2 of May 2008 which had, among other things, postulated an escalation in election violence, questio...
engage in sexual activity against one’s will and refusal to wear a condom. Other human rights violations included denial of basic necessities, arbitrary detention, arrest or threat of arrest and denial of health care. Notably, more transgender women reported experiencing emotional, physical, and ...