As the fever for the 16 days of activism against gender based violence gathers momentum, the Zimbabwe-United States Alumni Association (ZUSAA), through the American Embassy to Zimbabwe sponsored Food for Thought Programme delivered an inciting speech; mobilising various sectors of the Zimbabwean society to participate in the forthcoming campaign between the 25th November and the 10th December.

The meeting was attended by people of various backgrounds ranging from business, government, non-profit organizations, trade unions, arts and culture among many other professions.

The Zimbabwe Human Rights Association, (ZimRights) once again demands action as regards to the parties to the inclusive government’s commitment to tame violence across the country.

On Friday the 11th November, the leadership to the coalition government together with the executive structures of the involved respective parties convened a historic meeting aimed at deliberating issues surrounding the increase in violence that had been recorded in the preceding weeks. We applaud the outcome of the meeting; that violence was condemned in strongest words and that commitments to cascade down the gospel to the bottom rams of political structures were made. Serious considerations were also reportedly made to the police, whom of late have been accused of perpetrating violence allegedly through partisan operations.

The Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (COPAC), today at its head offices, announced the completion of the national report.

Briefing the audience, COPAC spokesperson Honourable Jessi Majome, indicated that the report is basically an elaborate of raw data collected country wide during the consultative phase. She said that the report is in two components, statistical form and the other in narrative. What it simply means is that both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis were used in producing the report. Clues were that the report will be up for public consumption shortly. They also presented a statement revealing that the report carried information reflecting contributions on each of the thematic areas.