Full preliminary findings of the UN special rapporteur on sanctions to Zimbabwe

While welcoming humanitarian support provided to Zimbabwe by donor states, the Special Rapporteur reminds on the need for pro bona involvement of all interlocutors, governmental, non-governmental and international, to rebuild Zimbabwe’s capacity to restore essential infrastructure and public services to enable the Government to implement its duty to take all necessary means to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals on elimination of poverty and hunger, in the sphere of health, nutrition, labor, social guarantees, education, access to Internet and elimination of corruption.

While recognizing the devastating consolidated effect of unilateral sanctions and over-compliance on the right to development of the Zimbabwean people and also on the rights to food, to health, to education and labor rights, the Special Rapporteur calls on the Government of Zimbabwe in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Country Team to implement fully the cooperation agreement signed between them and to organize visits of relevant Special Procedures to the country.

The Special Rapporteur calls on UN agencies and organizations, in cooperation with relevant humanitarian organizations, to organize monitoring of the negative humanitarian impact of unilateral sanctions within their respective spheres of interest.

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