The Bill, which was gazetted on Friday, is expected to be tabled in Parliament. The House of Assembly portfolio committee on Justice, Legal Affairs, Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs will look at it before transmitting it to the lower or upper house for the first reading.
President Mugabe swore-in members of the Human Rights Commission, the first body tasked with investigating cases of rights abuses in March last year.
Prof Reg Austin, a law professor and former Commonwealth secretariat's head of legal and constitutional affairs division, was appointed chairman of the rights body. But the body has largely been moribund because it lacked legal teeth.
The commissions were agreed by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Mugabe.
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