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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.