Zimbabwe is a country that has been the subject of sustained impunity for gross human rights violations, from the pre-colonial period to present. Acts of gross human rights violations that include extra-judicial killings, murders, torture displacements, enforced starvation, and detentions, amongst ot...
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration was found wanting by United Nations (UN) member States on human rights violations, with enactment of draconian legislation to curtail freedoms coming under sharp focus. Zimbabwe came under the spotlight yesterday at the UN Human Rights Council Universal Peri...
“There is no change, therefore, in the rights abuses. The only difference is that it is increasingly the victims of human rights violations who find themselves behind bars whilst the actual violators of rights call the shots,” said Mutetwa. Mutetwa says as a lawyer, she is not afraid t...
Zimbabwe: Human rights under the microscopeThe article focuses on the human right violation in Zimbabwe. The claims of human rights violations were used by the US and the European Union to impose punitive economic sa...
Refugees and internally displaced persons: IDPs: 400,000-450,000 (MUGABE-led political violence, human rights violations, land reform, and economic collapse) (2005) Illicit drugs: transit point for African cannabis and South Asian heroin, mandrax, and methamphetamines destined for the South Afri...
suspected government agents, according to Mukundu, are “attempts to control the social narratives in this country, more so the failures of the government to resolve the many challenges that this society is facing, be they economical and also the many human rights violations that are taking ...
Human Rights QuarterlyR. 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 ...
The US first imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe in 2000 citing the breakdown in the rule of law and human rights violations. Washington introduced the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (2001), which among other things, restricts some Zmbabwean state-owned companies from doing business with ...
The economic achievements notwithstanding, the unity government was a troubled one: the MDC factions and ZANU-PF struggled to agree on many issues, and Tsvangirai denounced ongoing human rights violations. Under the terms of the 2008 GPA, a new constitution was initially expected to have been dra...
Staff Reporter, Zimbabwe has had a long and tainted history of human rights violations. With the coming of President Mnangagwa in 2017, the people of Zimbabwe had hopes that the new administration will usher a democratic transition, yet since 2017… Posted on October 17, 2024 super3 Community...