Arnold Tsunga

Who is Arnold Tsunga?

Arnold Tsunga is the Director of the Africa Regional Programme of the International Commission of Jurists. Before joining the ICJ, he was the Executive Director of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights as well as the acting Executive Secretary of the Law Society of Zimbabwe and the National Chairperson of Zimbabwe Human Rights Association. He served as a Humphrey Fellow at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights is a human rights organization that provides legal representation to victims of human rights abuses and also defends human rights defenders who are arrested and detained in Zimbabwe. Tsunga has helped document human rights abuses in Zimbabwe and brought them to the attention of the international community. The ZLHR now plays a major role in defending against sustained attacks on the rule of law and human rights in Zimbabwe and in the struggle against impunity in the Southern African region.

He is a trustee of Voice of the People, a communications trust was established in the year 2000 as an alternative voice for Zimbabweans and advocates for the opening up of the airwaves in Zimbabwe.