December 7, 2023

Annual Report 2023

2023 will certainly go down as the year that we will not easily forget. It was the year in which the country underwent an election like no other. Nothing like this has been seen even in the region. The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum deployed election observers across the country to monitor, document and report…

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December 10, 2022

Annual Report 2022

2022 was unfortunately yet another year in which we witnessed regression in the state of human rights and democracy in Zimbabwe. The Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill continued to pose an existential threat to the work of civic society organizations, particularly those whose work is anchored in human rights and governance issues. In discharging…

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December 13, 2021

Annual Report 2021

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…

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November 22, 2019

Annual Report 2019

The year 2019 was a miserable year for human rights in Zimbabwe as it witnessed unprecedented episodes of violence. In January 2019, the government increased fuel prices triggering massive protests across the country. The protests were met with aggravated state violence leading to the extra-judicial killing of at least 17 people across the country. In…

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December 16, 2018

Annual Report 2018

The year 2018 was characterized by challenges and limited human rights progress. This was a year of political transition as Zimbabwe’s major political parties, the Zimbabwe African Nationalist Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), sought to rejuvenate themselves ahead of the July 2018 national elections. Expectations were high that…

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December 12, 2017

Annual Report 2017

This year we enter the second decade of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum’s (the Forum) existence. In this report, while we highlight the things achieved in 2017, we also reflect on the long journey that began 20 years ago in 1998, when a few members began this journey. It was supposed to be a…

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