Why was Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights formed?
A group of doctors got together and said there’s not enough of a response from doctors who will attend to someone who’s been beaten up or tortured or raped in terms of the organized violence and torture that was going on in the beginning of the 2000s. So they said lets get together and form and organization of people who will advocate, who will encourage health professionals to treat people and speak out on their behalf. What does the organization try to accomplish and why? The vision is an end to violations of the Right to Health. That includes broad things around maternal health, child health and also torture. You may say what chance do we have of stopping torture? The idea is that the better people are treated when they have been tortured, the better it’s documented, the better they are able to use that medical evidence to pursue redress; the less likely that it will continue to happen. People who think they can get away with it, will torture. In terms of how the health system funct
