(Cartridge collected in scene - picture courtesy of local citizens) On Saturday 30 April 2022, Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) received a report of Council rangers allegedly shooting a young man at St Peters Village in peri-urban Bulawayo ward 17 on the morning of the same day (Saturday) over a beer change dispute. The... Continue Reading →
Like the biblical parable traveler who was robbed, stripped, beaten and left by the road side to die, only to be saved by a societal underdog - a samaritan passerby, the City of Bulawayo's solid waste management nightmare is being ameliorated by the poor, marginalized, unrecognized and often discriminated upon waste pickers. Between the month... Continue Reading →
Small holder farmers in peri-urban Bulawayo ward 17 community are still counting their loses due to climate change induced drought that scotched all their field crops leaving them food insecure and dependent on food aid. When news reached the farmers in November 2021 that Zimbabwe is going to expirienced an above normal and extended rainy... Continue Reading →
(Hon Nicola Watson and representatives of NPRC, ZHRC and ZGC receive the Submission Paper from a community leader) Sixteen Community Based Organizations (CBOs) from across the country representing various ethnic, linguistic and geographic minority communities have endorsed a policy submission paper calling on the government of Zimbabwe to enact an inclusive and human rights based... Continue Reading →
Today (01 March 2022) Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) joins the progressive world in commemorating the 2022 International Waste Pickers Day, which is a global commemorative day set to recognize the efforts of waste pickers and to focus on the challenges they are facing in their livelihood enterprise. As we commemorate the International Waste... Continue Reading →
One Hundred and Fifty members of the Bulawayo Female Waste Pickers Association from Ngozi Mine, Trenance, Cowdray Park, Pumula Old, Pumula South, Pelandaba West, Magwegwe and Lobengula have received PPEs that include branded worksuits, gumboots, branded sunhats and waste picking gloves – in an effort by Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) to enhance a... Continue Reading →
Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights has trained and assisted the Bulawayo waste buyers to be organized and formulate a Bulawayo Waste Buyers Association which is inclusive of males and females in order to protect and promote the rights of waste buyers and waste pickers. MIHR has capacitated the waste buyers on human rights and assisted... Continue Reading →
Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights has monitored the ZETDC development-induced displacements of New Mazwi Villagers in peri-urban Bulawayo and established that whilst the housing units are of better value and quality, the processes of displacements fall short of national and international development induced displacements standards. The affected communities praised the process for having consulted them... Continue Reading →
As Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) we implore the Government of Zimbabwe to abide by the Constitutional principles and values of rule of law, justice, good governance, respect for vested rights (as espoused in Section 3 of the Constitution) by immediately reversing the unjust suspension of all teachers who are incapacitated to go to... Continue Reading →
Female waste pickers in Bulawayo have complained that the waste buyers at Ngozi Mine Landfill site are taking advantage of the incessant rains to swindle the waste pickers of their wares through price fixing. Speaking during a Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) organized waste pickers and business community engagement meeting, the waste pickers said... Continue Reading →
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