Summary: This is an analysis of alternative reports that have included children. Español / FrançaisThis is an analysis of alternative reports that have included children. It responds to the gap in information concerning children...
Summary: Women and children’s rights pressure groups have condemned virginity testing, a cultural tradition performed on young girls ostensibly to curb immoral behaviour before marriage.[18 April 2012] - The condemnation comes in the wake of recent...
Summary: Zimbabwe has no policy of separating juveniles from adult prisoners, so child offenders are lumped up with hard core criminals, often in cramped conditions, both before being tried and after being convicted. [HARARE, 11 April 2012] - Simon...
[9 February 2012] - The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure which was adopted at the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, will be open for signature at a signing...
Summary: Information about institutions in Zimbabwe that monitor children's rights.Children's Ombudsperson
The Ombudsman Act of 1982 and sections 107 and 108 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe established a national Ombudsman. The Office is tasked with...
Summary: General overview of Zimbabwe's national legal provisions on children's rights, including guidance on how to conduct further research.National laws on children's rights
Status of the CRC in national lawArticle 111B of the Zimbabwean...
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ZIMBABWE
Title:
State v. Nyemudzai Chikungurese
Court:
High Court of Zimbabwe
Date:
June 1, 2004
CRC Provisions:
Article 19: Protection from abuse and neglect
Other International Provisions:
African...
Life sentences in countries that practice inhuman sentencing.
Antigua and Barbuda
Life sentence for treason regardless of age: The Treason Act (article 8) sets a mandatory life sentence for treason offences, and the government has reported that this...
[HARARE, 24 February 2012] - Widespread poverty, a lack of social services and poor enforcement of legislation are hindering efforts to eradicate child labour in Zimbabwe. According to a 2010 UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report, 13 per cent...
Summary: Zimbabwe boy was convicted of 'criminal insult' and sentenced to two strokes of a cane for posting a photograph of a woman on Facebook and calling her a prostitute. [20 February 2012] - A Zimbabwe teenager has been sentenced to caning as...
