Ms. Roselyn Hanzi is a lawyer registered to practice law in Zimbabwe, employed by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) in Harare, Zimbabwe since 2007 and is presently working as the Director of ZLHR. She has managed the Human Rights Defenders, Institutional Reform and Policy Formulation portfolios. She holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree Honours from the University of Zimbabwe and Master of Laws (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa) from the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria and post graduate qualifications – Diploma in Transitional Justice from International Centre for

Transitional Justice and a certificate in Legislative Drafting from the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London. She has researched and written on the situation of Human Rights Defenders in Zimbabwe, elections and human rights law broadly, institutional reform topics on judiciary, and other key rule of law institutions involved in justice delivery as well as general human rights issues. She has also coordinated the representation and at times participated in representing human rights defenders at courts as well as other public interest litigation court cases.