Zimbabwe

The lives of pregnant women and their babies in Hopley settlement are in danger because of the Zimbabwean government's failure to ensure access to adequate housing and essential services, including health care. Conditions at Hopley are dire: most people live in overcrowded makeshift shelters and few have access to safe water. There is no maternal and newborn health care available within the community. The majority of the 5,000 inhabitants of Hopley were forcibly evicted from their homes by the authorities in 2005.

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This campaign digest focuses on the lives of pregnant women and their babies in Hopley settlement are in danger because of the Zimbabwean government's failure to ensure access to adequate housing and essential services, including health care. About 5,000 people live in Hopley settlement where conditions are dire.

In this memorandum Amnesty International assesses the human rights situation in Zimbabwe since the creation of an Inclusive Government in February 2009. Amnesty International is concerned about on-going blatant violations of human rights including continued harassment and intimidation of human rights and political activists, journalists and lawyers.

As the political parties in Zimbabwe set up an inclusive government, Amnesty International is calling on the new government to place human rights at the top of its agenda. Amnesty International is concerned about the role played by the security forces in silencing perceived political opponents. The organization is also concerned about the deteriorating economic and social conditions in Zimbabwe. Amnesty International is therefore calling on the government to implement a clear agenda for human rights which includes the five points explained further in this document.

This report outlines the context in which human rights violations have been taking place in Zimbabwe and describes patterns of violations. It focuses on violations that took place after the 29 March 2008 elections, as well as human rights violations committed by two units within the Zimbabwe Republic Police in 2007. It sets out Zimbabwe’s obligations under international human rights law and makes a series of recommendations to the government, aimed at ending human rights violations and breaking the culture of impunity.

June 2008
This report highlights the extensive human rights violations that have taken place since parliamentary and presidential elections were held in Zimbabwe in March 2008. It gives a sample of cases to illustrate the pattern of these violations and abuses and ends with specific recommendations to the government of Zimbabwe and the international community to address Amnesty International’s human rights concerns.

July 2007
Zimbabwean women are suffering increasing repression as they mobilize to confront the government in the face of a spiralling economic and social rights crisis in Zimbabwe.

July 2007
This short report highlights the recent cases of torture and ill-treatment by officers of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) of members of Zimbabwean civil society organisations and opposition political parties.

September 2006
This report contains "before" and "after" satellite images of four sites affected by the Operation Murambatsvina: Porta Farm settlement and portions of both Hatcliffe and Chitungwiza, all located around the capital, Harare, and Killarney, an informal settlement on the outskirts of Bulawayo in the south of Zimbabwe.

September 2006
One year after the mass forced evictions Amnesty International returned to Zimbabwe to investigate what, if any, action had been taken by the government of Zimbabwe to restore the human rights of the hundreds of thousands of victims of Operation Murambatsvina. The delegation found the government has failed to ensure adequate reparations to the victims.