Zimbabwe Joint Stakeholder Report for the United Nations Universal Periodic Review: The Death Penalty
Date: July 17, 2026
Country: Zimbabwe
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
Partners: Parliamentarians for Global Action, Veritas Zimbabwe, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Country: Zimbabwe
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
Partners: Parliamentarians for Global Action, Veritas Zimbabwe, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
This report commends Zimbabwe for enacting the Death Penalty Abolition Act in 2024 and aims to promote Zimbabwe’s full and irreversible abolition of the death penalty. It recommends that Zimbabwe accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and continue its progress toward resentencing the people who were under sentence of death at the time of abolition.
