Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights Calendar

Fostering A Culture of Human Rights in Zimbabwe

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Calendar of Events 2004 Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights
January
15	Beatrice Mtetwa – Peace and Justice Cocktail Party
21	Law Society Of Zimbabwe Training on the ACHPR and UN mechanisms
23	Public Interest Litigation Consultation with Lawyers

February
28	Human Rights Defenders Workshop Manicaland Holiday

March
TBA	Intensive Human Rights Training Programme ZLHR
15-23	60th Session of the UN Human Rights Commission Geneva

April
7	UN/ WHO World Health Day
18	Independence Day
TBA	Intensive Human Rights Training Programme ZLHR
23	60th Session of the UN Human Rights Commission
25	Human Rights Defenders Workshop Bulawayo

May
1	International Workers Day
3	UN World Press Freedom Day
TBC	35th African Commission Dakar Senegal
21-22	1st HIV/Aids Human Rights Conference
25	Africa Day
26	3rd Anniversary of the Formation of AU

June
TBA	Central, Southern, Eastern Human Rights Defenders Forum
20	Africa Refugee Day
26	UN Day of Solidarity with Torture Victims

July
1 2nd	Anniversary of the International Criminal Court
11-16	International Conference on HIV/Aids Thailand
12-30	UN Human Rights Committee 81st Session Geneva

August
11	National Heroes Day
12	Armed Defence Forces Day
12	UN International Youth Day
31	Case for submission Special Rapporteurs on Extra Judicial Executions, Violence against Women and Human Rights Defenders should be ready by this date

September
59th	Session of the General Assembly of the UN
25th	CMAG meeting on the Harare Declaration
6	3rd Anniversary of the Abuja Agreement

October
TBC	36th Session of the African Commission for Human and People’s Rights Banjul Gambia
10	International Day against Death Penalty
UN	Human Rights Committee 81st Session Geneva
16	World Food Day
21	Africa Human Rights Day
24	UN Day

November
7	UN Human Rights Committee 79th Session Geneva
13-24	UN Committee Against Torture
16	UN International Day of Tolerance
17	International Students Day
25	UN International Day fro Elimination of Violence Against Women followed by 16 days of action

December
1	Solidarity with AIDS Victims Day
1-5	Development and Human Rights University of Pretoria Centre For Human Rights Short Course
2	International Human Rights Day
22	Unity Day

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Evictions and Demolitions 09 June 2005: ZLHR petitions the African Commission. See letter to the African Commission Special Rapportuer on Torture and Other forms of Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment
crimes.

Evictions and Demolitions 09 June 2005: ZLHR petitions the African Commission. See letter to the African Commission Special Rapportuer on Refugees, Asylum Seekers
and Internally Displaced Persons

Zim Election 2005: Between January and March 18 2005, official reports from the Zimbabwean police have confirmed that 224 people have been arrested in 71 cases of political crimes.

Zim Election 2005: Concerns have been raised in the way the polling stations have been allocated and distributed between the rural constituencies and the urban constituencies

Between January 2003 and September 2003 ZLHR recorded a total of 367 human rights defenders as having been arrested and 161 of them charged under POSA in Zimbabwe

Between January 2003 and September 2003 a total of 30 journalists have been arrested and charged under AIPPA.

Between January 2003 and October 2003 ZLHR has recorded a total number of 383 arrests of hrds under the MOA, more than 200 of them in September and October 2003 alone.

On 16 May 2003 journalist Andrew Meldrum was deported from Zimbabwe despite the fact there was an explicit court order directing the State not to deport him.