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By Alois Vinga PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s “unrepentant” government is among 40 world countries which will stand before International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Committee on the Application of Standards (CAS) for violation of a convention on the rights of workers. The preliminary list of cases seen by NewZimbabwe.com was submitted by the social partners to the Committee on the Application of Standards. The fate of the Southern African nation will be deliberated at the 109th session ...

International organizations have consistently reported grave human rights violations committed since the outbreak of conflict in Darfur in 2003. Five years on, according to the UN, at least 300,000 people had been killed and 2.5 million had been displaced. Since then, the people of Darfur have continued to suffer extrajudicial executions, unlawful killings of civilians, torture, rape, kidnapping, destruction of villages and property, looting of livestock and property and destruction of livelih...

The New Standard Scale of Fines : A Fine Mess  [ Background to the Notice Statutes which create criminal offences usually specify the penalties that courts may impose, and the penalties often consist of fines whether or not coupled with terms of imprisonment.  Before 2004 fines were expressed as monetary amounts but inflation kept reducing their real value so that statutes had to be amended constantly in order to keep the fines realistic.  Hence section 280 of the Criminal Law Code, enacte...

Basisline go ahead that the president is not above the law, that the president of the united states is able to sit in a civil deposition regarding a civil matter, surely the person who is in charge of the executive branch whos job it is to enforce the criminal law code as well would be the person to also say, you can sit for that as well. but how it will look is this. the president will first have to say, a, mueller cannot subpoena me, he does not have the authority to do so under his mandate. t...