Zenaida Machado
Zenaida Machado is the Angola and Mozambique senior researcher in the Africa Division at Human Rights Watch. Before joining Human Rights Watch in 2015, Zenaida worked at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as a producer and journalist for Focus on Africa, Network Africa and at the BBC’s Portuguese service. Her more than 15 years of experience as a multi-media journalist covering Angola, Mozambique and Guinea Bissau includes working as a reporter and news writer in her home country, Mozambique, for Radio Mozambique, where she established the radio’s first news website. Machado has a Master’s degree in Media and Development from the University of Westminster and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo. She speaks English and Portuguese.
Articles Authored
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August 16, 2017
Angola Bans Activist Demonstrations Ahead of Elections
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June 29, 2016
Dispatches: Angolan Activists Conditionally Free
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March 31, 2016
Dispatches: Basic Rights Still a Pipe Dream in Angola
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January 25, 2016
Dispatches: Mozambique’s Double Speak on LGBT Rights
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January 19, 2016
Dispatches: Was There a Massacre in Huambo, Angola?
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December 17, 2015
Dispatches: Jailed Angolan Activists Sent Home, but Saga Continues
Reports Authored
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“Girls Shouldn’t Give Up On Their Studies”
Pregnant Girls’ and Adolescent Mothers’ Struggles to Stay in School in Mozambique