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'Mnangagwa not obligated to accede to international conventions'
The High Court has ruled that there is no legal requirement compelling President Emmerson Mnangagwa to accede to international conventions, following an application by lawyer and activist Obey Shava s...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 06:35hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Eight years on, authorities yet to give update on the disappeared journalist and pro-democracy activist
Eight years after journalist and pro-democracy activist, Itai Dzamara went missing authorities are yet to give progress report on their investigation efforts to ensure his family receives justice, tru...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 09:15hrs | | by APO/Amnesty International
EU begs to deploy observers to Zimbabwe
THE European Union (EU) says it is ready to send an observer mission to help Zimbabwe hold free, fair and inclusive elections this year, which will guarantee the bloc's increased economic development ...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC to lobby Parly over shrinking democratic space
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) plans to lobby Parliament over government's alleged failure to restore the rule of law, claiming that the democratic space continues to shrink in the country ...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 06:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
EU's Timo Olkonnen lectures Zimbabwe on democracy and reforms
VARIOUS stakeholders are sceptical that next year's general elections will be free and fair before the implementation of electoral reforms.NewsDay (ND) senior reporter Miriam Mangwaya caught u...Published: 29 Aug 2022 at 06:32hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe refuses to buckle under pressure from the lesbian, gay, bisexual community
ZIMBABWE has refused to buckle under pressure from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community to accept their predisposition.The local delegation led by Justice, Le...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:02hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime on UN radar over abuses
ZIMBABWE'S legacy of gross human rights violations topped discussions at the 30th meeting of the ongoing 50th session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, which put the spotlight on Presid...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:31hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Former territories of the British Empire snub Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S bid to be re-admitted into the Commonwealth group of nations appears to have flopped after the economic bloc snubbed the Southern African country.The Commonwealth Heads of Governmen...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must address human rights concerns: UN
"ZIMBABWE must address issues of human rights concerns in order to create a platform that will help find solutions to this long problem of sanctions in this country," the United Nations resident and h...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe has ignored calls to stop torture'
ZIMBABWE has adopted only 127 out of 264 recommendations made during the third cycle of Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process on January 26 and ignored recommendations on torture and other hum...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns 'meddling' diplomats
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday read the riot act against foreign diplomats, accusing them of meddling in the country's internal affairs and fuelling political tension ahead of next year's gene...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells diplomats to project true Zimbabwe story
Diplomats accredited to Zimbabwe should not undermine peace prevailing in the country through projecting false narratives, but must tell the true Zimbabwean story, President Mnangagwa has said....Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Time to end political violence culture
WITH by-elections scheduled for March 26, a few weeks away, there is rising concern over pockets of violence being recorded in some parts of the country.Zanu-PF and Citizens Coalition for Chan...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Exiled CCC activist seeks virtual trial
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Netsai Marova, who is believed to have skipped the border, has requested Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to set up a virtual court trial after a Harare m...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 16:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bullying antics have no space in a multi-party democracy
TOP Zanu-PF officials' threats to punish critics with local sanctions for holding the ruling party and government to account, is shocking and only strengthens the belief that the ruling party is avers...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, break these chains
ONE of Zanu-PF's defining traits is impunity - accentuated by the party leaders' utter disdain for the rule of law and constitutionalism.The primitive arrogance is on display everywhere. Someo...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:34hrs | 3 | by Brezh Malaba
Mnangagwa must just reform and shame the devil
ON Wednesday, a UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group confirmed critics' worst fears that there has been no change in the country's human rights record under Presiden...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 06:17hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'lied' over Zimbabwe rights record: CSO
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) yesterday accused government of lying during a United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) meeting on the country's human rights situation.Zimbabwe's huma...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe makes progress in human rights reforms
ZIMBABWE has made tremendous progress in the implementation of various reforms that seek to strengthen and protect citizens' rights.On Wednesday the United Nations Human Rights Council's Unive...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 05:53hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
UN red-flags Zimbabwe on human rights
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 unde...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's rights record under UN spotlight
ZIMBABWE's human rights' record will be under global spotlight next week during the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review (UPR) working group meeting.The UPR worki...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's human rights record under spotlight
GOVERNMENT has failed to implement recommendations of the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Report, amid deteriorating human rights as well as closure of civic space in the country, rights groups...Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi defends Zimbabwe's human rights record
MUTARE: Despite strong criticism against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime over its human rights violations, Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi says Zimbabwe remained committed to upholding the citi...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:22hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Ratify democracy charter before 2023'
GOVERNMENT has been urged to complete the ratification of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG) before the 2023 general elections in order to promote free and fair electio...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UN red flags Zimbabwe human rights situation
CIVIC society organisations (CSO) have submitted their report on Zimbabwe's third cycle of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on human rights which flagged the country's deteriorating ...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition intensifies use of lawfare to exert pressure on govt
In pursuit of their lawfare strategy designed to wield pressure on Government in an effort to paralyse the State, the MDC Alliance and its allied Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) intent to lodge a l...Published: 23 Jun 2021 at 07:52hrs | | by Political Reporter
Dzamara's wife seeks closure 6 years on
MISSING journalist cum-activist Itai Dzamara's wife, Sheffra yesterday made an impassioned plea for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to intervene and intensify investigations on her husband's disappearanc...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Canada sanctions on ZImbabwe to remain
CANADA is one of the Western countries which imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe following the violent and chaotic post-2000 land reform programme. Since then, relations between the two countries have been ...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 09:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZLHR in solidarity with torture victims
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has said it stands in solidarity with all victims and survivors of torture and calls on the government to take measures to ensure that all victims and survivor...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 09:37hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
CSOs play critical role in UPR process
National Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (NANGO), Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) on 31 May and 1 June 2018 capacitated 80 representatives fr...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
UN calls on Zimbabwe to abolish death penalty
United Nations (UN) resident co-ordinator Bishow Parajuli has cited the death penalty as one of the critical issues which needs swift abolishment as the country under the new dispensation led by Presi...Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-graft unit above board, claims minister
JUSTICE, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has defended the position taken by President Mnangagwa to set up a Special Anti-Corruption Unit, saying it was a constitutional and no...Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government stifling human rights
In a worrying trend, the government of Zimbabwe remains keen on curtailing freedoms and denying citizens their constitutional rights often with a brutal show of force in public places.ZimRight...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Stephan Jakes
Zim human rights situation deteriorates - UK report
The United Kingdom (UK) has released a report in which it says the human rights situation in Zimbabwe has deteriorated on the back of violations by security agents.In its July 2017 global repo...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 12:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZLHR concerned over human rights violations
ON the occasion of the United Nations (UN)'s International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) stands in solidarity with all those who have been victims, sur...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 10:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Iran, Venezuela, North Korea back Zimbabwe at UN inquiry
Activist group United Nations Watch (UNW) has expressed disgust over the hailing of Zimbabwe's human rights record by "rogue" States - Iran, Venezuela and North Korea.While the three count...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 16:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZLHR commends govt for continued engagement of Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has commended the government of Zimbabwe for its continued engagement with the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), but remains concerned by the government’s ref...Published: 20 Mar 2017 at 05:49hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's human rights report trashed
Civil society organisations from all over the world confronted President Mugabe's government last Thursday at the United Nations Human Rights Council and strongly objected to Zimbabwe's human righ...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joint Oral Statement on the adoption of Zimbabwe Universal Periodic Review
CIVICUS and Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum have welcome the Government of Zimbabwe’s continued cooperation with the Universal Periodic Review process, including its acceptance of a number of import...Published: 18 Mar 2017 at 07:08hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Human rights abuse rampant in Zimbabwe
Geneva – On Thursday, March 16, 2017, the Zimbabwe delegation led by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa a...Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 08:03hrs | | by ZimRights
Zimbabwe human rights report adopted in Geneva
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHC) has adopted Zimbabwe's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report in Geneva, Switzerland.Zimbabwe's report highlights the country's human rights ...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 16:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's human rights record perfect- Mnangagwa
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has told the world that Zimbabwe's human rights situation is blameless and the Zanu PF led government is 'happy' with it.Mnangagwa is i...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 11:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe committed to human rights, says Mnangagwa
Government is happy with the human rights situation in the country and is committed to supporting and implementing all instruments to that effect, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. ...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 09:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZLHR joins the world in celebrating women's day
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has joined the rest of the world in commemorating International Women’s Day under the theme#BeBoldForChange.In a statement ZLHR said this year’...Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Unacceptable persecution of human rights defenders
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has strongly condemns the violation of the rights of human rights defenders (HRDs), who were abducted and tortured by unidentified men on Friday 18 November 20...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 19:23hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Rights groups commend the govt for its efforts in producing the national report
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) and the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) has commended the government of Zimbabwe for its efforts in producing the national report as well as partic...Published: 16 Nov 2016 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa flies back from Geneva
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa returned home from Geneva, Switzerland with acclaim from some United Nations (UN) member states who celebrated Zimbabwe's effort in the promotion of human rights....Published: 08 Nov 2016 at 19:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sets record straight on death penalty
Government is set to consult Zimbabweans on whether the country should retain the death penalty or completely abolish it in fulfilment of recommendations from other United Nations Member-States, V...Published: 06 Nov 2016 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe endorses Mnangagwa
Vice President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is now all but set to officially takeover from President Robert Mugabe, as the country's second republic president, amid reports from ruling party insiders that, Fi...Published: 04 Nov 2016 at 07:11hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya/ Mary-Kate Kahari
Zimbabwe pardon 10 death row inmates
ZIMBABWE last week pardoned 10 inmates who were on the death row after they requested for Presidential clemency while the remaining 80 will also survive the gallows if Government resolves to compl...Published: 04 Nov 2016 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
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