Zimbabwe's few remaining commercial white farmers said they are under increasing pressure, some of it violent, to leave their land in the latest surge in farm seizures since President Robert Mugabe launched fast-track land redistribution about a decade ago. 

The program was intended to right a wrong of the colonial era when mainly British whites dispossessed indigenous blacks in the former Rhodesia, but many blame land reform for Zimbabwe's precipitous economic decline, reports VOA correspondent Scott Bobb.

The General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe this week released a documentary and a report on the impact of land reform on farm workers. It said the initiative has driven many farmworkers into poverty by eliminating their source of income, and that the government has not addressed the dire plight of many thousands of rural workers.

The documentary, called ìHouse of Justice,î and the report, entitled ìIf Something is Wrong,î was launched on Tuesday in Harare at a gathering attended by representatives of civil society organizations, labor unions and members of the diplomatic corps.

Gender and Child Labor Coordinator Juliet Sithole of the farmworkers union told VOA Studio 7 reporter Jonga Kandemiiri that the organization wants to increase regional and international pressure on the government to respect basic human rights.

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