THE issue of overcrowding and sharing of communal bathrooms and toilets coupled with the worsening water crisis in Bulawayo has been blamed for the city ’s diarrhoea outbreak, which has so far claimed two lives. Statistics from the city health services department show that more than 1 663 cumulative cases have been recorded so far... Continue Reading →

Today (Tuesday 20 September 2022) Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) submitted to the Bulawayo City Council a petition with 1513 signatures asking the local authority to review its water billing system in accordance with the currently prevailing water shedding programme. Currently Bulawayo City Council is facing a water shortage situation which has forced the... Continue Reading →

Conflicts are on the rise in Bulawayo’s shared sanitation communities such as Iminyela and Mabuthweni (in ward 13) as residents struggle to rationalize health and hygiene needs due to the continued water rationing currently happening in Zimbabwe’s second largest City. The City of Bulawayo is currently undergoing an official 72 hours per week water shedding... Continue Reading →

As the race for the Rights In Action Fellowship Champion heats up, Teddy Ngwenya has mobilized youths in his community to cleanup litter in their neighborhood and at the same time educating them about environmental management. The cleanup was also attended by Council officials who also included the local Councilor. Teddy has a vision of... Continue Reading →

Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) has launched a petition on Bulawayo water billing as part of the organization's 2022 World Water Week activities. The 2022 WWW runs under the theme "Seeing the Unseen - the Value of Water" and the organization will be circulating a petition which amplifies citizen voice on the problems of... Continue Reading →

Clare Zhou, a Bulawayo young female who is part of the MIHR Bulawayo Youths 3 months Rights In Action Fellowship has begun organizing safe spaces for young girls to open up and discuss issues around relationship abuse. The space which is proving to be a exciting initiative for youths, allows girls to speakout on the... Continue Reading →

Having gone for over 2 weeks without tape water in her community of Pumula South, young Samantha Kahari braved the fear and lack of experience of engaging her leadership and spoke to her Councilor for the first time in her life, resulting in the Council water bowser coming to the area twice the next day.... Continue Reading →

From an list of 39 applications, Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights has finally selected 6 Bulawayo Youths who will be part of the 2022 Bulawayo Youths Rights In Action Fellowship. The 3 months fellowship will include training on human rights and civic engagement and practical action in the community to solve real community human rights... Continue Reading →

Bulawayo female waste pickers operating at Bulawayo's Richmond Landfill Site (popularly known as Ngozi Mine) have taken a bold stand to defend their rights by mobilizing other waste pickers and nonviolently boycotting selling their stuff for a pittance. On Thursday 02 June 2022, some female waste pickers mobilized other waste pickers (both male and female)... Continue Reading →

Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) appreciates the holding of the High Level InterMinisterial Indaba on Lake Gwayi-Shangani being convened by the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Fisheries and Rural Development in Hwange on Friday 03 June 2022. We thus implore the High Level Indaba to abide by the tenants of Constitutionalism and formulate a... Continue Reading →