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The Zimbabwe government has started pushing for the formal ratification by Zimbabwe of the United Nations Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
This will result in the prosecution of people who are found guilty of using torture while investigating crimes.
The convention was adopted and opened for signatures, ratification and accession by the UN General Assembly Resolution 39/46 of December 10 1984.It came into force in June 1987.

Foreign-owned banks operating in Zimbabwe will soon be compelled to relinquish part of their shareholding to locals in terms of the country's indigenisation and economic empowerment requirements, if the new law being drafted by Government is passed.

Zanu-PF will not accept a constitution that does not capture public opinion and, instead, advances the interests of individual political parties, President Mugabe has said. Cde Mugabe's remarks come in the wake of reports that a draft constitution produced by a team of experts commissioned by the Constitution Select Committee (Copac) contains a clause that determines the eligibility of presidential candidates based on the number of terms served.

THE United States' pretences on democracy received a major knock on Tuesday in the wake of revelations that the country's voters roll has close to two million dead voters.
A report by Pew Centre, a renowned US thinktank, estimates that among 24 million voter registrations, about one out of every eight are either no longer valid or inaccurate.
The Washington-based research centre provides information on issues, attitudes and trends shaping the United States and the world.

The UN gave free rein to the US, France and the UK, known as the P3, to intervene in Libya without any evidence of war, former president Thabo Mbeki said in Cape Town last night.

"The naked reality is that the relevant organs of the UN - the Security Council and the Office of the Secretary-General - elected to betray their binding obligations in terms of international law, especially as prescribed by the UN Charter," Mbeki said at the annual Dullar Omar memorial lecture at the University of the Western Cape.

Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF is not happy with drafters of the constitution for diverting from the views expressed by the people during the outreach programme, party national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo has said.

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Nigerian man to life in prison for trying to blow up a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit in 2009.

"This was an act of terrorism that cannot be quibbled with," said U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds, who imposed the maximum sentence allowed.

GATUNDU, Kenya  - Next door to the mansion where Kenya's richest man, presidential contender and now war crimes suspect Uhuru Kenyatta grew up near the capital Nairobi, stands Francis Karanja's mud hut with a tin roof.