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A local human rights pressure organisation, ZimRights has set the tone for a post COVID-19 human rights centred recovery plan. The country imposed a national lockdown to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 however, the period was marked by arbitrary arrests of political and student activists. The country has recorded 10 […]
Zimbabwean youths have been challenged to take their space in the fight against human rights violations as the issue affect their communities. In an exclusive interview with 263Chat, ZimRights executive director Dzikamai Bere said youths should not wait for those in leadership position to blow the whistle for action. “We need to understand the world […]
The National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) has roped in top Columbian reparations expert, Paula Gaviria, to deliberate at the third edition of the Reparations dialogue slated for next week in the capital. Gaviria served as the Director of Colombia’s Reparations Programme in the Office of President Juan Manuel Santos in 2012. During her tenure, […]
The right to freedom of expression and of the media was under serious threat in 2017. In practice, the most important human rights problems remained government’s reluctance to respect civil liberties especially rights relating to freedom of association, assembly and expression of the media…
“The NPRC out reach program is not well publicized and it’s publicity is very limited and it does not make sense for a commission to embark on an outreach program without a chairperson and regulations…