The year 2021, was, in the context of human rights protection and promotion, a significant and very eventful year. It was a year that marked the 5th edition of the African Anti-Corruption Day commemorations – celebrated by countries across the region since 2017 to mark the African Union’s adoption of the African Convention on Preventing and Combatting Corruption (AUCPCC). It was also a year that marked the 73rd anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document in the history of human rights which sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected.

Regrettably, these milestones were celebrated against a background of a deteriorating political, economic, and social environment in Zimbabwe. On the political front, measures such as the continued ban on by-elections under the guise of battling the COVID-19 pandemic created a constitutional crisis that is clearly occasioned by, and is indicative of, a deepening political crisis in the country.

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