{"id":4817,"date":"2014-08-15T16:44:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T09:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2014-08-15T16:44:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T09:44:29","slug":"zimbabwe-one-of-problem-states-violating-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-one-of-problem-states-violating-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe one of \u2018problem states violating human rights\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe, the incoming chair of the 15-nation Southern African Development Community (Sadc), is among one-third of the group\u2019s governments whose human rights records are causing serious concern, three rights organisations said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights raised the alarm at a joint news conference in Harare ahead of the Sadc\u2019s annual summit, to be held in Victoria Falls on August 17 and 18.<\/p>\n<p>The groups named Angola, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe as the main problem countries violating fundamental rights \u2014 either human, economic or social&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zimbabwe News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bdlive.co.za\/africa\/africannews\/2014\/08\/14\/groups-flag-zimbabwe-as-one-of-problem-states-violating-human-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe, the incoming chair of the 15-nation Southern African Development Community (Sadc), is among one-third of the group\u2019s governments whose human rights records are causing serious concern, three rights organisations said on Thursday. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights raised the alarm at a joint news conference in Harare ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,2533,3576,3575,1466,257,1412,3577,254,4693,2642,3574,4686,594,421],"class_list":["post-4817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amnesty-international","tag-economic","tag-human","tag-human-rights-watch","tag-news","tag-sadc","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-southern-african-development-community","tag-violating-fundamental-rights","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-lawyers-for-human-rights","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}