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CSOs speak ahead of Zimbabwe universal periodic review
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR)
September 22, 2011
Zimbabwe government
representatives, diplomats and civil society representatives on
Wednesday 21 September 2011 attended a side meeting at the ongoing
18th session of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva,
Switzerland.
Zimbabwe Lawyers
for Human Right's Dzimbabwe Chimbga updated participants on
the current human rights situation obtaining in the country. He
also reviewed the long path that CSOs have traversed since 2010
in preparing for the forthcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
before providing an overview of the Advocacy Charter prepared by
local civil society organisations (CSOs) in relation to the government's
National Report.
The UPR is a
unique human rights mechanism of the UNHRC aimed at improving the
human rights situation on the ground in each of the UN Member States.
Under this mechanism, the human rights situation of all UN member
States is reviewed every 4 years. At each of its meetings the Council
devotes much of its time to consideration of country reports from
the process of review in which every UN member State has agreed
to participate.
Zimbabwe's
compliance with its international obligations is scheduled to be
scrutinised by the global community of nations on 10 October 2011.
The government has produced its National Report which it will present
at the UPR session; local and international CSOs have submitted
several Stakeholder Reports to assist the UNHRC in assessing the
accuracy of this National Report.
As has become
the custom, Zimbabwe government representatives based in Geneva
were in attendance to dispute presentations made and defend the
government's tainted human rights record in advance of the
review.
More updates
will be forthcoming in the days leading up to the review on 10 October
2011.
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