Zimbabwe Human Rights situation under review

Zimbabwe's human rights situation is set to go under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a mechanism established by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

The programme is being launched under the peer country to country review mechanism of the overall human rights situation of the UN member states.

Zimbabwe participated in the UPR process in 2011 for the first time and accepted various recommendations in the outcome report.

The process starts 02 November during the second cycle of the UPR process and it is required to report back on the progress made towards implementing the recommendations it accepted in 2011.

In seeking to raise awareness of the UPR process, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights on behalf of the civil society UPR Steering Committee representatives namely the National Association of Non Governmental Organisations, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum and ZLHR itself, will host a Zimbabwe UPR Interactive Dialogue Public Screening.

This is being held on 02 November 2016 in Harare at Holiday Inn Hotel Harare starting from 9am to 12:30noon. This will also he done in Bulawayo at Holiday Inn Hotel and in Mutare at Mutare Club, where people can follow live the screening of proceedings of the interactive dialogue during the review of Zimbabwe by the UN member states during the UN HRC led- UPR on its live broadcast channel, 'webcast'.