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To the Zimbabwe government
- Allow local and international
humanitarian organizations full and unimpeded access to all parts of Zimbabwe to ensure that humanitarian assistance is delivered to all those in need and in
accordance with humanitarian principles.
- Protect all victims of the evictions, in
particular women and vulnerable groups such as children, the elderly and
chronically ill persons, including those living with HIV/AIDS.
- Take immediate steps to provide
assistance including alternative accommodation to those affected, and
legal remedies including appropriate compensation or other forms of
reparation to all those affected in a speedy, impartial and transparent
manner.
- Co-operate with an independent,
international investigation into the events of Operation Murambatsvina.
Bring to justice those whose actions in planning or executing Operation
Murambatsvina violated national law or international human rights law.
- Develop a legal framework free from
gender discrimination, for conferring security of tenure on those who do
not yet have it, including those in informal settlements or who are
occupying land or housing.
- Investigate allegations of excessive use
of force and other human rights abuses by police and other state officials
involved in the evictions and bring all those responsible to justice.
- Allow and co-operate with visits by
Special Rapporteurs of the Commission on Human Rights, the Representative
of the Secretary General for Internally Displaced Persons and relevant
human rights mechanisms of the African Union to further investigate the
human rights situation in the country.
- Strongly condemn the mass evictions and
demolitions; call on the UN Secretary General to set up an independent and
impartial commission of inquiry to investigate the manner in which the
evictions were carried out and for those responsible to be brought to
justice.
- Urge the government of Zimbabwe to take immediate action to address the impact of the evictions and demolitions on the
hundreds of thousands of homeless and destitute Zimbabweans.
- Strongly condemn the mass evictions and
demolitions and urge the government of Zimbabwe to take immediate action
to address the impact of the evictions and demolitions on hundreds of
thousands of homeless and destitute Zimbabweans.
- Call on the UN Secretary General to set
up an independent and impartial commission of inquiry to investigate the
manner in which the evictions were carried out and for those responsible
to be brought to justice.
- Continue to inquire into the human rights
situation in Zimbabwe and appoint another Special Envoy to investigate the
impact of the mass evictions and demolitions.
- Follow through on recommendations from
the ACHPRs mission report in 2002 that address the poor human rights
conditions in Zimbabwe.
- Put Zimbabwe on the agenda of the next
session of the ACHPR in November 2005.
- Enhance the protection and welfare of the
evicted population by putting in place mechanisms that identify the needs
of those that have been evicted, in particular homeless persons sleeping
in the streets and in the rural areas. These mechanisms could include
direct interventions by humanitarian officials with relevant government
officials, to prevent any human rights abuses from taking place.
- The Secretary General should establish a
Commission of Inquiry to identify those responsible for planning and
carrying out Operation Murambatsvina and whose actions violated the human
rights of hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans.
- The Secretary General should call on the
government of Zimbabwe to provide internally displaced persons with
protection from and remedies for alleged human rights abuses.
- The UN Country Team should place human
rights protection at the centre of all interactions with the government of
Zimbabwe. More specifically, it should support civil society groups
working for human rights protection in Zimbabwe and urge the government of
Zimbabwe to adopt a constructive approach with local nongovernmental
organizations in the development and implementation of assistance programs
and permit them to carry out their work free from intimidation, threats
and human rights violations.
- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
should urgently follow up on recommendations in the UN Special Envoys
report on the evictions, in particular the deployment of monitors to
observe compliance with human rights standards.
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