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According to human rights organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch the government of Zimbabwe violates the rights to shelter, food, freedom of movement and residence, freedom of assembly and the protection of the law. There are assaults on the media, the political opposition, civil society activists, and human rights ...
The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe made a groundbreaking decision in 1995 by ruling that a foreign husband should have identical rights of residence as a foreign wife. [7] As a direct result of this ruling, the Zimbabwean government added the 14th amendment to the constitution, which effectively got rid of all rights to citizenship based on marriage ...
7 May 2021: Citation: Constitution of Zimbabwe, as amended up to 20th June 2023 (PDF), 20 June 2023: Commissioned by: 2008–2009 Zimbabwean political negotiations: Author(s) Parliamentary Select Committee: Signatories: Robert Mugabe: Supersedes: Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 19) Act, 2008
According to a report by Human Rights Watch in 2001, the Ivory Coast government was guilty of fanning ethnic hatred for its own political ends. [31] In 2004, the Young Patriots of Abidjan, a strongly nationalist organisation, rallied by the state media, plundered possessions of foreign nationals in Abidjan. Rapes and beatings of persons of ...
He joined the Liberation Movement in the youth wing of the Zimbabwe African Peoples’ Union (ZAPU) and left the country for Zambia later in 1963. He was the mayor of Bulawayo, the second largest city in the country, from 2001 to 2008. [3] [4] [5] He was a member of the MDC, and joined MDC-M during the split in that party.
The Gukurahundi was a series of mass killings and genocide in Zimbabwe which were committed from 1983 until the Unity Accord in 1987. The name derives from a Shona language term which loosely translates to "the early rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rains".
Mike Campbell (Pvt) Ltd et al. v. Republic of Zimbabwe [1] is a case decided by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal (hereinafter "the Tribunal"). The Tribunal held that the Zimbabwean government violated the organisation's treaty by denying access to the courts and engaging in racial discrimination against white farmers whose lands had been confiscated under the land ...
19 January – President Mnangagwa says the United States has no standing to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe following the 2021 United States Capitol attack. [3] 24 January – COVID-19: A fourth member of the Cabinet of Zimbabwe dies in two weeks. [4] 27 January – Journalist Hopewell Chin'ono is released on bail after three weeks in prison ...