Call for Papers The Zimbabwe Rule of Law Journal
The Zimbabwe Rule of Law Journal is currently inviting manuscripts for publication in its second edition, which is scheduled to be published by November 2017. The Journal encourages the submission of a range of works on any current legal topic from academics, legal practitioners, judicial officers and law students from Zimbabwe and abroad. We seek to publish contributions that provide new insights…
Participants Graduate in the Raoul Wallenberg Institute / CALR Human Rights Professional Training Program
The collaboration between the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and the Centre for Applied Legal Research (CALR), on Friday saw the first group of participants graduating in the Professional Human Rights Training. The Professional Human Rights training progamme which ran from October 2016 – June 2017 forms part of the Human Rights Development and Capacity Building Project being led by the…
IMT exhibits at ZITF
The Inter-Ministerial Taskforce (IMT) on Legislative Alignment exhibited during this year’s ZITF edition. The thrust of the exhibition was to inform and engage the public on legislative alignment, and inform them of the progress made, and also assessing whether the public was aware of the alignment processes. The IMT stand ran under the theme, “Promoting Industrial Development through the…
Ministry of Health conducts Northern and Southern Region stakeholder consultations on the alignment of the Health Services Act
Harare - The Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) in partnership with the Inter-Ministerial Taskforce on Alignment of Legislation (IMT) and with support from the Centre for Applied Legal Research (CALR), held stakeholder consultations on the Health Services Act covering the Northern and Southern parts of Zimbabwe. Stakeholders gathered on the 22nd and 23rd of March 2017…
Stakeholder Consultations on the Coroner’s Office Bill
On the 15th and 16th of March 2017, the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs (MoJLPA) and the Ministry of Health and Child Care, held the second stakeholder consultation workshop on the Coroner’s Office Bill at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Bulawayo. The meeting which was organised in partnership with the Inter-Ministerial Task Force on Legislative Alignment (IMT)…
Reflective meeting on the National Peace and Reconciliation Bill
The Centre for Applied Legal Research (CALR) in collaboration with the Southern Africa Parliament Support Trust (SAPST) and the National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG), hosted members of parliament and civil society organization at a meeting to deliberate on the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission Bill [HB. 2.2017] [the NPRC Bill]. The meeting was held in Harare, on…
CALR In The News; Education Pre-Bill Consultations End
THE Education Draft Bill, which is set to align the current legislation with the new Constitution, is set to be completed at the end of this month after the pre-Bill stage consultations were completed on Friday last week in Manicaland. The consultations, which began in November in Bulawayo, moved to Harare before spreading to the other provinces, encompassing…
Citizen Perception Mapping of the Justice Delivery System of Zimbabwe Validation Workshops
The Centre of Applied Legal Research (CALR) presented its report on the Citizen Perception Mapping of the Justice Delivery System of Zimbabwe at two scheduled validation workshops in Harare and Bulawayo on the 25th October and the 3rd of November 2016 respectively. The Citizen Perception Mapping of the Justice Delivery System of Zimbabwe Report provides key findings and recommendations obtained…
CALR in collaboration with Solusi University delivers a Public Lecture
CALR in collaboration with Solusi University coordinated the delivery of a public lecture with support from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 17 November2016. The public lecture was delivered by former Judge of the Bulawayo High Court, Justice Nick Ndou under the topic ‘The role of Judiciary in protecting and promoting the rule of law in Zimbabwe.’…
Stakeholder Consultations on the Education Amendment Bill
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE), in partnership with the Inter-Ministerial Taskforce on the Alignment of Laws with the Constitution (IMT) and with the support of the EU and UNICEF, held the first of ten scheduled stakeholder consultations on the Education Amendment Bill at the Cresta Churchill Hotel, Bulawayo, on the 29th and 30th November 2016. The objective…
