Human Rights Abuses
President Mugabe’s brutal campaigns of violence against women: Electing to Rape – published initially in December 2009 … Read More
Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa’s first year in office marked by a “systematic and brutal crackdown on human rights” -26 August 2019... Read More
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed deep concern regarding crackdowns – 16 August 2019 … Read More
Missionary John Bradburne, murdered by Mugabe’s troops just before the bush war ended, is to be declared a saint – 8 July 2019 … Read More
Human rights defenders report that Zimbabwe has changed for the worse – 8 July 2019 … Read More
International Day Against Torture: African Civil Society orgs flag arrests, abductions and torture in Zim – 26 June 2019 … Read More
It’s one short ride – skydiving and memories of the second Viscount that was shot down in Rhodesia – 18 June 2019 … Read More
Zim authorities detain four human rights campaigners, reports ZLHR – 21 May 2019 ... Read More
Babies die needlessly or are disabled at death-zone hospitals, say desperate doctors – 14 March 2019 ... Read more
Zimbabwe drifts towards online darkness with Chinese and Japanese surveillance equipment – 26 February 2019 ... Read More
Heavily armed soldiers abduct the two Saunyama brothers, both of them MDC officials – 20 February 2019 ... Read More
Mnangagwa confirms that he was the one who unleashed the security forces; threatens doctors and lawyers who assisted those in need – 18 February 2019 ... Read More
UK govt announces compensation scheme for former British child migrants sent to Southern Rhodesia, Australia, New Zealand and Canada after the war – 14 February 2019 ... Read More
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam call for urgent meeting with Mnangagwa over violence – 13 February 2019 ... Read More
Amnesty International report on the ruthless crackdown in Zimbabwe and the shocking injuries – 8 February 2019 ... Read More
Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum report on the human rights violations committed between 14 January and 5 February, 2019: “On the Days of Darkness in Zimbabwe” – 6 February 2019 … Read More
Mutare Man Brutally Savaged By Group Of Soldiers Dies From Assault-induced Kidney Failure – 1 February 2019 … Read More
Author and human rights activist Cathy Buckle’s latest update on the brutal government crackdown in Zimbabwe – 1 February 2019 ... Read More
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) President Nelson Chamisa’s press statement on the crisis – 29 January 2019 ... Read More
Sky News’s John Sparks witnesses a beating in the military crackdown – 28 January 2019 ... Read More
South African columnist Redi Tlhabi reports that the ‘New Zimbabwe’ looks more and more like the old – 27 January 2019 ... Read More
The gross human rights violations being perpetrated in Zimbabwe violate international law, writes the Southern Africa Litigation Centre – 25 January 2019 ... Read More
The Zimbabwe’s Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has accused security forces of 'systematic torture' – 25 January 2019 ... Read More
Zimbabwe crackdown: Children shackled and caged in security round-up, reports Sky News -26 January 2019 ... Read More
Soldiers committed rape and broke legs in crackdown – 25 January 2019 ... Read More
Zimbabwe: After the crackdown, the purge, reports Simon Allison in the Mail & Guardian (SA) – 24 January 2019 ... Read More
Zimbabwe unleashes lethal force on the enemy – its people, including young children, writes Christina Lamb – 23 January 2019 ... Read More
Exposed: the horror Zimbabwe is hiding behind a news blackout by Christina Lamb – 20 January 2019 ... Read More
Pastor Evan Mawarire is charged with plotting to overthrow the Mnangagwa government – 17 January 2019 ... Read More
Five dead, dozens injured as protests prompt brutal crackdown in Zimbabwe – 16 January 2019 ... Read More
Mnangagwa government issues a Mugabe-style threat to NGOs and non-citizens – 13 January 2019 ... Read More
The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) report on the 2018 post-election violence – November 2018 ... Read More
‘Arbitrary arrests, detention rise’ reports the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum – 17 November 2018 ... Read More
The African Union Makes Moves to Neutralise Africa’s Main Human Rights Body, the ACHPR – 25 October 2018 ... Read More
“Marange: The Imprisoned Community” is a new documentary about communal depravation and displacement while the diamond beneficiaries grow rich – 18 October 2018 … Read More
“Marange: The Imprisoned Community” documentary by the Centre for National Resource Governance – 18 October 2018 ... Read More
A new documentary on Gukurahundi Massacres takes aim at President Mnangagwa – 18 October 2018 … Read More
Jestina Mukoko, Zimbabwe Peace Project director, gets justice after 2008 abduction and torture – 5 October 2018 ... Read More
Human rights defender and torture victim Jestina Mukoko visits Ireland – 24 August 2018 ... Read Mores
Grace Mugabe farm victims win $30,000 compensation – 2 March 2018 ... Read More
Pretoria High Court judgment on SADC Tribunal lashes former President Zuma – 1 March 2018 ... Read More
Former President Zuma lashed by court for unconstitutionally closing down SADC Tribunal ... 1 March 2018 ... Read More
Hearing of court case against President Zuma re the closure of the regional court, the SADC Tribunal – 6 February 2018 … Read More
What will the coup mean for human rights abuses? Asks Dewa Mavhinga of Human Rights Watch – 3 January 2018 ... Read More
Zimbabwe’s grim hospital wards fuel outrage toward WHO following Mugabe honour – 25 October 2017 ... Read More
Mugabe removed as World Health Organisation goodwill envoy after outrage – 22 October 2017 ... Read More
Zimbabwean activists condemn 'absurd' World Health Organization honour for Robert Mugabe – 20 October 2017 ... Read More
Police chief Augustine Chihuri, Ignatius Chombo and ZRP members on trial over unlawful arrest and detention of ZINASU members – 22 August 2017 ... Read More
Tribute to Lord Joel Joffe, a dedicated human rights lawyer and ambassador of the Mike Campbell Foundation – 23 June 2017 ... Read More
Human rights situation deteriorates in Zim says UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office – 20 July 2017... Read More
Beatings and evictions at Grace Mugabe-linked farm, reports Human Rights Watch – 23 May 2017 ... Read More
Canada’s Pierre Trudeau government turned a blind eye to the Gukurahundi massacres – 14 May 2017 ... Read More
Plan to expose human rights abuses at SADC Summit in Swaziland on 30 and 31 August 2016 ... Read More
Civil society statement on resolving the Zimbabwean crisis and urgent message to SADC Heads of State – 26 July 2016 ... Read More
Police brutality and teargas attack in Bulawayo causes death of baby and elderly woman – 11 July 2016 ... Read More
Zimbabwe’s Winter of Discontent 2016: Causes and Opportunities for Democratisation by ZEF – 8 July 2016 ... Read More
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights deploys lawyers throughout the country over #SHUTDOWNZIM – 7 July 2016 ... Read More
New book: 50 years of Tyranny in Zim - 29 June 2016 ... Read More
Terror on blacks – by blacks: Strategies for staying in power, including Operation Murambatsvina by Ken Yamamoto – 28 June 2016 ... Read More
The trial of former Chad leader Hissène Habré provides a model for international justice – 30 May 2016 ... Read More
Former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré found guilty of crimes against humanity in Senegalese court – 30 May 2016 ... Read More
First ever picture released of what is believed to be abducted journalist Itai Dzamara in custody – 30 May 2016 … Read More
Chadian dictator Hissène Habré’s torture chambers under spotlight at Cannes film festival – 16 May 2016 ... Read More
Zimbabwe Peace Project: Human rights violations report – April 2016 ... Read More
Enforced disappearances continue to be a challenge in Zim reports the ICAED – 25 May 2016 ... Read More
Compare Cecil Rhodes with our self-enriching African presidents writes Erick Mhlanga - 15 April 2016 ... Read More
Actor arrested for US$15 billion loot play profiling missing diamond revenue - 14 April 2016... Read More
Violence against new Zimbabwe People First party supporters and the MDC – 15 March 2016 ... Read More
Are Former Liberation Movements Inherently Violent as Governments? Research & Advocacy Unit (RAU) report – February 2016 ... Read More
Brace yourselves for massive human rights violations in 2016 says Crisis in Zim Coalition – 22 January 2016 ... Read More
Latest Human Rights Watch report: Human rights abuses continue in Zimbabwe – 16 January 2016.... Read More
Disappearance of Itai Dzamara and ongoing monitoring by CIO and other govt agencies - 16 August 2015.... Read More
Maynard Manyama castigates SA’s Economic Freedom Fighters leader, Julius Malema, for spreading misinformation on Zimbabwe, accusing him of cheap point scoring and blind populism – 24 July 2015... Read More
Mugabe calls for African leaders to pull out of the International Criminal Court (ICC) – 9 July 2015.... Read More
Global cost of conflict reaches US$14.3tn, says report; Zimbabwe at no. 5 spends 22% of GDP – 17 June 2015 ... Read More
Omar Al-Bashir, African leaders and hypocrisy regarding the SADC Tribunal and the ICC – 19 June 2015 ... Read More
U.S. concerned over ongoing human rights violations in Zimbabwe – 14 May 2015... Read More
Farm attack, murder of conservationist, pro-democracy activist Itai Dzamara still missing – 7 May 2015... Read More
Xenophobia: South Africa’s moral code is ruptured, says Tutu Foundation – 19 April 2015 ... Read More
Tutu on xenophobia - 17 April 2015 .... Read More
Xenophobic attacks in South Africa: Mugabe under fire for his silence – 16 April 2015... Read More
South Africa xenophobia: Deadly anti-foreigner riots in Durban explained - 15 April 2015 ... Read More
Xenophobic attacks leave Zimbabwean children stranded – 15 April 2015…. Read More
Racial Discrimination in Zimbabwe – a Systematic Programme of Abuse – Mike Campbell Foundation report – 15 April 2015 ... Read More
Cathy Buckle: Who are we at 35? - 9 April 2015.... Read More
Atlas of Torture Project calls for his release - 2 April 2015..... Read More
Disappearance of Zim activist Itai Dzamara - statement by US Dept of State – 20 March 2015 .... Read More
Activist Itai Dzamara still missing as state officials deny abducting him – 13 March 2015.... Read More
Abduction of political activist Itai Dzamara by unidentified operative – 13 March 2015 …. Read More
Abduction of Itai Dzamara – Amnesty International press statement – 10 March 2015 …. Read More
Signed 800 years ago, the Magna Carta protected the rule of law, property rights and human rights – 11 February 2015.... Read More
Brutal assault of Itai Dzamara and Kenney Masiye following peaceful demonstration- 14 November 2014 ... Read More
Crimes against humanity case brought against Zim Government: SA Police must investigate - 1 November 2014 ... Read More
Zim torture case – South African Constitutional Court to rule [SALC] – 29 October 2014.... Read More
AU should reject impunity for sitting Heads of State – 26 October 2014 .... Read More
Death of a ‘Hero’: Zimbabwe’s sickness; Zimbabwe’s prison- 9 July 2014... Read More
Demolitions leave 300 homeless mid-winter in Buhera Central – 30 June, 2014 ..... Read More
Govt starves Chingwizi victims of Tokwe Mukosi dam forced removals – 1 June 2014 ... Read More
Targeting of lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa provides snapshot of more sinister trend – 14 May 2014 .... Read More
African Union ‘protecting evil African leaders’ by demanding immunity – 30 May 2014.... Read More
Zimbabwe Torture Case Reaches South Africa’s Constitutional Court – 15 May 2014... Read More
Immunity proposal for sitting government leaders in Africa causes alarm 12 May 2014... Read More
Structural violence and organised violence and torture ZHR Forum – April 2014 –...Read More
Zim diamonds: Relocated Marange villagers face unfolding humanitarian crisis - 25 April 2014 ... Read More
US-Africa Leaders August Summit in Washington – calls for CSO participation – 23 April 2014 .... Read More
Operation Murambatsvina victims: A decade of suffering, with no respite - 6 April 2014 ... Read More
US and EU aid has saved millions of Zimbabweans from starvation – 20 February 2014... Read More
Comparative analysis of EU and U.S policies on Zimbabwe -20 February 2014 ... Read More
Ongoing abuses revealed at Chiadzwa diamond fields- 22 January 2014... Read More
Racial Discrimination in Zimbabwe: A systematic program of abuse - 12 November 2012 ... Read More
AIDS-Free World’s Strategy to Challenge Impunity and Stop More Election-Related Rape – April 2012... Read More
Diamond field: Zimbabwe torture camp discovered - 8 August 2011…Read More
Perpetual Fear: Impunity and cycles of Violence in Zimbabwe, HRW - March 2011... Read More
Mugabe-orchestrated, brutal rape campaign after the 2008 elections: Report by AIDS-Free World – 10 December 2009 ... Read More
The return of the bloody diamonds: Miners at gunpoint in Zimbabwe -19th September 2009… Read More
CRD: No End to Killings in Chiadzwa- 11 Sept 2009... Read More
Subliminal terror: Human Rights Violations and torture in Zimbabwe during 2008 ...Read More
In the Shadow of Gukurahundi” by Tim Scarnecchia, Association of Concerned African Scholars – December 2008... Read More
Their words condemn them: The language of violence, intolerance and despotism – May 2007... Read More
The Gukurahundi Massacres (1983-1987s): Re-release of original report: Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe - May 29, 2007 ... Read More
The Gukurahundi Massacres (1983-1987): Breaking the Silence Report - April 1999 ... Read More