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By Rumbidzai Francisca Zengwa On the 3rd of February 2021, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) filed an urgent application with the High Court seeking a court intervention to compel the government of Zimbabwe (GoZ) to make public the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out strategy. On the 5th of February, the matter was removed from the urgent […]

Zimbabwe’s Minister of Information Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday, 9 February 2021, announced during a post-cabinet briefing that the Cabinet had approved guidelines for the COVID-19 vaccination programme. The so-called guidelines are a far cry below what ZimRights has demanded of government in fulfilment of its Constitutional obligations to protect the right to life and the right […]

Background Sometime in September 2020, Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC), an independent human rights institution, launched a report which reflected on the state of access to documentation in Zimbabwe. The report was a consolidation of the findings on the “National Inquiry on Access to Documentation in Zimbabwe”. The full report is accessible on http://www.zhrc.org.zw/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/NI-Report-1.pdf In […]

Gender-based Violence The Big Elephant In The Room That We Should All Confront At seven years, a typical Zimbabwean boy in the rural areas is expected to be playing with his age mates, running his parents’ errands here and there, getting  reprimanded for a misdemeanor or two. For Kurai, a seven-year-old boy in Manyengana Village, […]

There are no human rights without love: Reflections from Poverty-Ravaged Communities “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” Hélder Pessoa Câmara “As Zimbabwe’s first post-independence indigenous human rights advocacy group, at ZimRights we take great pride […]

“Youth Bill of Rights”: A Call to Lead Transformation ZimRights National Director Calls Young People to Lead Today On Friday, (09 October 2020), our National Director Dzikamai Bere, at the invitation of Silveira House and the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) spoke to a group of vibrant young people about the ‘Youth Bill […]

Devolution: Inclusive Governance and Economic Transformation Deliberations with Mr. Patrick Karanja on the impact of Devolution to inclusive governance and whether it leads to economic transformation. “Devolution is different from Delegation.” We have just concluded the Third Episode of the Devolution Series focusing on Inclusive Governance and Economic Transformation looking at Kenya, which is in […]

Devolution: Reconfiguration of Power for the People Reflections with Prof. T. Murithi on the Peace Potential of Devolution in Practice. “Beware of devolution lite.” By Dzikamai Bere We have just concluded the Second Episode of the Devolution Series focusing on the Peace Potential of Devolution in Practice. Our guest was a good friend and learned […]

Sir Robert Peel once said, “the police are the public and the public are the police”. This statement reflects the dual role the members of the public police hold in our communities. The Zimbabwe Republic Police are faced with tough moral decisions on a day-to-day basis to respect the rights of citizens or of the […]