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Roselyn Hanzi

Executive Director of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR)

Roselyn is the Executive Director of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR). An organisation that protects and promotes human rights through litigation, research and advocacy. Roselyn has extensive experience managing the protection of human rights defenders and coordinating human rights and constitutional litigation and advocacy interventions. She provides leadership to ZLHR in their litigation work, which has benefited tens of thousands of victims of human rights violations and defenders.

Rose has written several publications on elections, women human rights defenders, and Zimbabwe’s compliance with human rights treaty obligations. She has also written on transitional justice, with a bias on institutional reforms (particularly justice sector-related), human rights defenders, and human rights in general.  Rose was part of the civil society advisory panel that initiated and contributed to drafting the African Union Transitional Justice Policy. She has proactively worked with Zimbabwean, regional and international organisations interested in protecting civic space and human rights defenders. Rose is the civil society representative in the Stakeholder Advisory Council of the Independent Recourse Mechanism of the African Development Bank.