This brings us back to Bond, a veteran of the civil rights movement who has pretty much run the group since the messy departure of Bruce Gordon as president and CEO this time last year.
"Without a clear and unambiguous departure from a past characterised by harassment and intimidation of human rights defenders and of impunity for Zimbabwe's police and security sector, the promise of the new constitution will be laid to waste, " they said in a statement.
Macedonia also has suffered internal strife since its departure from Yugoslavia in 1991, much of it related to a rights struggle by the country's large Albanian minority.