Zimbabwe

* By Tarisai Nyamweda

The ICJ notes that Zimbabwe is a signatory to various international human rights standards that guarantee the right of human rights defenders to do their work in an environment free from threats, attacks and acts of intimidation.

A new PAC report about Zimbabwe's contested diamond fields is about many things: smuggling and frontier hucksterism; a scramble fuelled by raw economic desperation and unfathomable greed; and heart-wrenching cases of gove