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‘Most Zimbabweans victim of State torture tactics’

June 26, 2015 0Comments 0Likes

THE majority of Zimbabwe’s population, estimated at around 13 million people, has been tortured by State security apparatus in one way or the other and required some form of compensation, renowned human rights lawyer Alec Muchadehama has said. Muchadehama, who is a member of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO-Forum, told NewsDay yesterday that the country needed…

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Human Rights in Zimbabwe One Year into the Government of National Unity (GNU) – Time to Ratify Conventions

March 11, 2010 0Comments 0Likes

The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) calls on the Government of Zimbabwe to ratify the United Nations Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and the International Convention on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Zimbabwe has a protracted and infamous history of gross human rights violations. Violence, enforced…

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International Day against Torture

June 25, 2005 0Comments 0Likes

The United Nations (UN) International Day in Support of Victims of Torture was first observed on 26 June 1998. This date, 26 June was chosen by the United Nations because on the same day in 1987, the UN Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment came into force – and…

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Statement by the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum on the Use of Torture by State Agents

January 23, 2003 0Comments 0Likes

The Board of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum condemns the increasing use of torture as a method of investigation and interrogation by state agents on persons in their custody. Several incidents of this barbaric behaviour have been reported of late; the most recent being the brutal torture of a human rights lawyer (a former employee…

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Statement on The Amani Trust

January 23, 2002 0Comments 0Likes

The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum is a network of human rights organisations which came together in 1998 to co-ordinate the provision of legal and psycho-social services to victims of organised violence and torture in Zimbabwe. The Amani Trust is a member of the Human Rights Forum, which was founded in 1998 and comprises 12…

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Statement Regarding Mr. Pfebve

September 6, 2001 0Comments 0Likes

The Human Rights Forum wishes to make public the following events that have recently occurred. Mr Elliot Pfebve is a victim of organised violence and torture, and one of the complainants in the civil suit mounted against Mr Robert Mugabe in a New York court. Mr Pfebve’s offices at 95…

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Bringing perpetrators and instigators of violence to justice

July 5, 2000 0Comments 0Likes

In its various reports the Human Rights Forum documented the political violence that occurred in the pre-election period in Zimbabwe . The worst acts of violence included murders, rapes, serious assaults and destruction of houses and other property. These and other acts of political violence were aimed at intimidating voters and forcing…

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Statement on the Rule of Law and the Continuing Torture and Ill-treatment of Political Opponents

January 19, 2000 0Comments 0Likes

The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum wishes to express its continuing concern for the failure by the President and the Government to affirm their serious commitment to the rule of law, and additionally for the Government to take positive steps to ensure an end to the political violence. As regards the rule of law, we would…

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‘Most Zimbabweans victim of State torture tactics’

Human Rights in Zimbabwe One Year into the Government of National Unity (GNU) – Time to Ratify Conventions

International Day against Torture

Statement by the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum on the Use of Torture by State Agents

Statement on The Amani Trust

Statement Regarding Mr. Pfebve

Bringing perpetrators and instigators of violence to justice

Statement on the Rule of Law and the Continuing Torture and Ill-treatment of Political Opponents

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