Rights bodies flag UN over Zim rights violations BY MOSES MATENGA GLOBAL and local human rights organisations have written to the United Nations to red-flag Zimbabwe for alleged continued persecution of human rights defenders. The organisations that include Committee to Protect Journalists, Robert F Kennedy Human Rights, Southern African Human Rights Defenders Network and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights wrote to Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. In the letter, also sent to six other UN Special Rapporteurs, the rights defenders said Zimbabwe was under siege as citizens’ rights continue to be violated.
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Covid-19 Extended Lockdown: Zimbabweans applaud Government Muchaneta Chimuka Zimbabweans have applauded Government for extending the Level 4 Lockdown prompted by a surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths in the country. Acting President and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Constantino Chiwenga on Friday extended the current lockdown by a further two weeks. Responding to the news, Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) Executive Director, Itai Rusike said the lockdown restrictions were obviously a result of the poor compliance by the public. He said the escalating Covid-19 cases that have resulted in more people getting sick, and more people dying also necessitated the lookdown extension.
Demolitions hurt women, children December 27, 2020 in Local Eight years ago Miriam Phiri moved into her newly built house in Chitungwiza’s Zengeza 4 Extension. social commentary with Moses Mugugunyeki Despite having purchased the ground on which she built her “mansion” from a “third party”, Phiri claimed to have the blessings of the local authority. She is among thousands of home seekers who have fallen prey to land barons masquerading as “real estate agents” who operate outside Chitungwiza Municipality head office in Zengeza 3. “I was referred to someone outside the council office who could facilitate a piece of land to build a house,” said Phiri, a single mother of three.