Widespread human rights violations were inflicted upon white farmers and black farm workers by agents of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government during the seizures of white-owned farms from 2000 to 2005. This report finds that the gross human rights violations, and the violations of rights generally, were much greater than had been previously assumed. It […]
Themes Archives: Violence on Farms
Full Shadow Report to the Combined 7th, 8th and 9th Report of Zimbabwe to ACHPR
May 1, 2007 : Publications
This shadow report establishes that the Government of Zimbabwe has committed a series of abuses of the rights enshrined in the African Charter and has badly failed in its obligation under Article 1 of the African Charter to take legislative and other measures to give effect to the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Charter. […]
Their Words Condemn Them: The Language of Violence, Intolerance, and Despotism in Zimbabwe
May 1, 2007 : Publications
The utterances of political leaders can be very revealing. Their commitment to democracy and human rights is most tested when there is a serious challenge to their continued hold on power or when they attract heavy criticism. At such times, the leaders either display political tolerance or they lash out at their critics and opponents. […]
Zimbabwe’s Failure to Meet the Benchmarks in the Cotonou Agreement
November 24, 2006 : Publications
Unlike its predecessor, the Cotonou Agreement expanded the cooperation between the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States into the political sphere, explicitly giving cognisance to the fact that issues of governance are inseparable from economic development. This aspect of the agreement has been successively strengthened, particularly through amendments introduced by Annexure […]
New Wave of Farm Invasions in September 2005
September 26, 2005 : Monthly political violence reports
The month of September saw a new wave of farm invasions in Manicaland where 4 cases were reported. These invasions followed the signing into law of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, which among other things, strips away the right of appeal to the courts by aggrieved parties in cases where their land has been […]