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Featured Resource of the Week: Election and Democracy: A Citizens guide to Building a Culture of Effective Participation in Election and Democratic Processes

Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) is Zimbabwe’s first post-independence indigenous grassroots human rights advocacy group. It was formed in 1992, ZimRights brings together ordinary people who work together to advance the cause of human rights in Zimbabwe. It is registered as a welfare organization under the Private Voluntary Organization Act (W/03/93). It is the duty of every citizen to participate in the democratic and electoral process hence the Election and Democracy zone brings to you the first edition of the members handbook for old and new ZimRights members. Titled Election and Democracy: Featured Resource of the Week: Election and Democracy: A Citizens guide to Building a Culture of Effective Participation in Election and Democratic
Processes,it is an important tool to help Zimbabweans enhance their role in elections and democratic processes as well as to help citizens to understand and execute their civic duties effectively.

The handbook answers the following questions:
What is democracy?
Legal framework for Election and Democracy in Zimbabwe
Institutions of Democracy 
Measuring and Deepening Democracy
Participation
Zimbabwe Electoral’s System
Democracy beyond Election

Download the book here
https://t.co/HX4eRtZuCd

Happy Reading!!!!!
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@misazimbabwe Congratulations 👏👏 Dr Tabani

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Our May Newsletter is here. Be sure to click and reflect on the highlights for the month. Find out how ZimRights communities have been faring on advocacy issues. Access our knowledge bank as we share with you resources and reports that will assist you to make sense of what is happening in the world of human rights.

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Good morning. What’s in the week? #PeoplesManifestoZW #DanceChallenge loading… Watch the space #ShowUpZW
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Join us as we commemorate World Press Freedom Day. The commemorations will be livestreamed by @OpenParlyZw we will share the link shortly.

#WPFD
#WPFD23

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Restore workers dignity and protect livelihoods

Statement to Commemorate Workers Day

1 May 2023

Today, the 1st of May 2023, ZimRights joins the rest of the nation in commemorating Workers Day.

Workers Day has been celebrated the world over since the 19th century. Zimbabwe has also had a long history of observing this day. This day is observed in order to honour workers and to recognize their contributions towards the development of the society, it is therefore, a highly significant day, which serves as a reminder of the struggles and sacrifices of workers over the years.

As has become the norm, this year’s commemoration comes when Zimbabwe’s labour landscape is blighted with numerous challenges. High unemployment rates, poor remuneration, high costs of living and a disenfranchised labour force.

Zimbabwe’s Labour force today stands at around 1 million formally employed and around 4 million in the informal sector. They are faced with a three-pronged struggle – against a moribund economy that fights workers quest for a decent living, against unfair labour practices, and against an increasingly authoritarian government that does not guarantee workers’ rights.

In addition, the ordinary Zimbabwean worker today can barely afford basics like three decent meals a day let alone savings for self-advancement. Access to basic healthcare is now a distant reality for the majority. Instead, those few who are lucky to be employed, are saddled by a punitive tax regime and unrelenting inflation. The recent rot exposed at Premier Service medical Aid Society adds insult to injury – here, workers subscriptions for medical aid were looted through murky deals. To top it all, workers are not able to voice their concern and their right to strike and demonstrate is continuously being subverted though authoritarian laws such as the criminalisation of strike action by health professionals.

ZimRights is concerned with this unfolding situation and calls on the government of Zimbabwe to restore the workers dignity and the peoples’ right to earn livelihoods.

ZimRights urges the government to embrace the #PeopleHumanRightsManifesto which is an expression of what Zimbabweans expert from their political leaders. The People’s Human Rights Manifesto, launched on 12 April 2023, is an invitation to all political candidates in the upcoming elections to sign up and make human rights the centre of their policies. The Manifesto further invites the people of Zimbabwe to reject the old politics of bribery, violence and cultism and focus on ensuring that leaders commit to and deliver on their human rights obligations, and that they are ready to be held to account. Ask number 6 in the Manifesto is a plea by Zimbabweans that citizens and workers, are put at the centre of development.

“We need you to build and improve our livelihoods as much as we expect you to construct bridges, dams, roads, and other infrastructure. Our youths need
jobs and opportunities to earn an honest and decent living. You should champion the need for workers in the public and private sectors to get
remuneration that allows them to live a decent life. You should also fight for workers in the informal sector to have safe spaces to ply their trade and support to grow their business” reads the Manifesto

ZimRights wishes the Zimbabwean workers in both the informal and formal sectors a happy and hopeful May Day commemoration.
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@nompilo_simanje @globalfreemedia Congratulations Nompilo

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Did you manage to read ZimRights’ press statement in commemoration of the National Youth Day? We argued that fighting the high prevalence of drug and substance abuse requires a wholesome approach and not piecemeal interventions.
https://t.co/2LaegXGdxq

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1/3 Listen and Enjoy!
Our Elections and Democracy Action Zone brings to you our latest jingle on elections and democratic participation. Listen and share as widely as possible. Feel free to make your own videos and tag us as well #10x10registertovote2023
https://t.co/LjpgYiONFG

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This week in Your Rights in Parliament , we share the live feed from @OpenParlyZw . Let us know your thoughts and expectations regarding the delimitation report.
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Call for suppliers. Please share with your networks
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Quality service provision guarantees human rights and human rights are the world we live in. Without human rights, our worlds is nothing and humanity perishes. @ZimRightsMasvi2 @ZimrightsBYO @dzikamaibere @chra @byopra

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Follow our Facebook page https://t.co/tKcyVbf9FQ for live coverage of this special event. @dzikamaibere @ZimrightsBYO @ZimRightsMasvi2 @ZimRightsMshEst @ZimRightsMshCnt @ZimHRNGOForum @Zpp @weleadteam @SwissEmbZim

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For this special day, we are convening a Movement-Building Masterclass for the movement builders who made this milestone a reality on the 16th of November. On the 17th of November, we hold an exhibition to showcase some of the powerful stories of impact over the last 30 years.

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CELEBRATING 30 Years of Grassroots Organising
Next week, we celebrate the birth of Zimbabwe's first and largest post-independence indigenous human rights advocacy group. We have reached a milestone - 30 years of grassroots organizing. 250 000 members.

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I believe that we will take our ubuntu into consideration and be able to come up with a position that will help us move forward as a country.

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Let us be mindful that HE Emmerson Mnangagwa survived the death penalty on a technicality, only to have it realised that what he was fighting for was correct, but the law at that time has=d already condemned him to death.

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#happeningnow Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Hon Ziyambi Ziyambi now delivers the key note address– “Toramba tirimhondi here nekuti mhondi dzaponda?”
The Constitution of Zimbabwe maintains the #deathpenalty.

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“𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗵”
𝑆𝑇𝐴𝑇𝐸𝑀𝐸𝑁𝑇 𝑂𝑁 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝑅𝐸𝐶𝐸𝑁𝑇 𝐴𝐶𝑇𝑆 𝑂𝐹 𝑉𝐼𝑂𝐿𝐸𝑁𝐶𝐸 𝐴𝐻𝐸𝐴𝐷 𝑂𝐹 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝐸𝐿𝐸𝐶𝑇𝐼𝑂𝑁𝑆

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African governments seem more inclined to sabotage the human rights mechanisms rather than support them. The result is a collapse in African people’s confidence in Africa’s own human rights mechanisms.