Community members who are part of Virtual Platforms established by communities working with Heal Zimbabwe from Gutu and Zaka have singled out corruption by law enforcement agents as the major…
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Introduction This report emerges from a Community Water Alliance (CWA) commissioned rapid assessment of the COVID-19 compliance of urban markets in the Chitungwiza Municipal area. The Development Governance Institute (DEGI)…
Families who lose loved ones during this Covid-19 pandemic will have to abandon their cultural burial rituals and practices due to recently announced restrictions around the movement of corpses and…
Zimbabwean police on Friday 8 January 2021 arrested and detained prominent freelance journalist Hopewell Chin’ono and charged him with publishing or communicating false statements prejudicial to the State after he…
Health and Child Care Minister Constantino Chiwenga on Friday 8 January 2021 buckled to a protest by lawyers and immediately designated legal practitioners as essential service providers, who are exempt…
Introduction About MIHRFounded in the year 2015, Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) is an independent human rights watchdog that exists to enhance the nonviolent protection and promotion of human…
Human rights lawyers on Wednesday 6 January 2021 filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking an order to compel the government to urgently place them on the…
Masvingo High Court Judge Justice Neville Wamambo on Tuesday 5 January 2021 ended the 18-day detention of Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) leader and Masvingo teacher Shilla Chisirimunhu,…
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) calls upon the government to uphold human rights and observe the rule of law during the COVID-19 national lockdown. This follows the…
Public Health Lock-down Order: New Clampdown The national lock-down was extended and intensified by two SIs published in the past few days. SI 314 of 2020 extended the declaration of COVID-19 as…