Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Zimbabwe to Assess the Scope and Impact of Operation Murambatsvina

Author:
Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka
Publisher:
UN Habitat
Publication Date:
22 July 2005
Tags:
Zimbabwe, Human Rights, Urban Issues and Habitation, Conflict, Peace and Security, Environment

UN Special Envoy and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka presented her report to the Secretary General on Friday with calls to the Government of Zimbabwe to stop the demolition of homes and markets, pay reparations to those who have lost housing and livelihoods and punish those who, “with indifference to human suffering,” carried out the evictions of some 700,000 people.

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