Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace Zimbabwe (CCJPZ)

The aims of the CCJPZ are to inform people’s consciences, to make people aware of their rights and duties as citizens, to encourage love, to promote the Church’s social teaching, to investigate allegations of injustice and to take appropriate action. It also seeks to keep in contact with other organisations with similar objectives, and to advise the Bishop’s Conference on the human rights situation in the country from time to time.

The CCJPZ has recorded crucial chapters of Zimbabwe’s history in reports and publications that pre-date independence in 1980. The organisation is a Commission of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference with an affiliation to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in Rome and has active contact with Commissions in other countries.