Human rights pressure group Amnesty International says the continued detention of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators Job Sikhala, Godfrey Sithole and 14 others reveals how the country’s justice system has been politicized. Sikhala and Sithole were arrested on 14 June facing charges of inciting violence
Amnesty International has condemned the use of lockdown regulations by Zimbabwean police to silence health workers and other activists who are legally demonstrating against poor remuneration and poor working conditions. In a statement, Amnesty International called on authorities to drop charges against health care workers for
Human Rights watchdog, Amnesty International has renewed its call for the Government to assist in revealing the fate of journalist cum political activist Itai Dzamara who has not been accounted for since his disappearance five years ago. The watchdog called for the establishment of a commission
Government has set an undisclosed budget for the setting up of 10 “community radio stations” which should be running by year end, but experts are not amused with the government’s role in the exercise arguing that the move will compromise the independence of the stations. This
Following the constitutional court ruling on Wednesday that hacked section 27 of the Public Oder and Security Act (POSA) as unconstitutional, human rights lawyers and defenders alike have fallen into a merriment as the 17 years old legislation which the state security agents have been
Human Rights advocacy civic society organization Amnesty International Zimbabwe has today pleaded with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the parliament of Zimbabwe to abolish death penalty saying it violates the constitutional provision which guarantee the right to life describing the capital punishment as cruel and inhuman.
Amnesty International Zimbabwe in partnership with Zimbabwe Association of Community Radio Stations is calling for the Zimbabwean government led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to liberalize the airwaves. Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe is also being called to activate broadcasting existing laws to free airwaves a
The Zimbabwean authorities must honor the promise they made to investigate all the leads to establish the whereabouts of disappeared pro-democracy activist and journalist, Itai Dzamara, Amnesty International has said. In a statement released today the 9th of March, the day Dzamara was abducted three years ago, Amnesty
In the region, the report warns that the space for human rights defenders, activists, journalists and opposition political parties was increasingly restricted
Human rights watchdog, Amnesty International Zimbabwe has cited the confusion around the legal age of consent for sex, marriage and access to health services saying it leaves adolescent girls more vulnerable to unwanted pregnancies and HIV infection. The report titled, Lost without knowledge: Barriers to sexual and
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