Actions & Alerts!FOR Under Surveillance – Urgent Action Needed In 2005, we informed FOR supporters that more than 10,000 pages of FBI files had been released to us, documenting decades of surveillance of the organization. Now, we have just learned that for two full years - since December 2006 - our Latin America program has been targeted and monitored by state agents... Press Statement Abductions-Zim Lawyers for HR Today is a sad Christmas for those who usually celebrate it. Please see attached statement from Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights circulated last night. Even as we are relieved to hear that Jestina Mukoko (see earlier emails and circulars) and the others are alive, news of their extremely severe injuries at the hands of the government authorities is worrying. As you can see, the list includes a two year old. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS RELATING TO INDIVIDUALS
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Highlighting women’s conspicuous absence in the media coverage, negotiations, and resolutions during the Zimbabwe crisis, Pumla Dineo Gqola outlines the extent to which we have grown accustomed to the near total elision of women’s lives, contributions and agency from significant political events... 32 Demonstrators arrested ZPP has received reports that 32 Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) demonstrators were arrested around 10:00 am in the morning today. The arrested included Zansi Mabunda, Charles Chikonzo, Denzel Mushayi, Ngoni Nyanhete and others. The total number of arrested persons in Gweru is 32 and these have been taken to Gweru Central Police Station. Mugabe executes 16 soldiers Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) Demands the immediate release of Jestinah Mukoko Public Movement Multinational Georgia (Tbilisi) Today the whole population of Georgia is hostages of the insanity of the political regimes and silence of the international community. The only way to rescue more than 4 millions of hostages with no regard whether they are Georgians, Ossetians or Russians, as well as to prevent dying of young soldiers from the all armies and militia is to push on international and intergovernmental organizations to react finally.
"I have contacted the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs with an urgent request to convince the Zimbabwean government to stop the violence, the intimidation..."
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I try by all means to avoid being angry where possible because anger impairs one’s judgment. It literally distorts one’s perception of reality and many times leads to actions that may be regretted latter. HOPING AGAINST HOPE Where on earth am I drawing such hope, my phone rang. That was about 4.45am Zimbabwean time. The person on the line was a friend in Mount Darwin, a small town in Mashonaland Central province. What pained me most is she was celebrating and thanking God for a 20 kilogram pack of maize meal she got yesterday... Kwete! Kwanele! Enough of this shit already! At 8h30 this morning SABC Africa served Africa a bowl of porridge for the soul which should surely have agitated our stomachs, if not our feet and voices. The news brief contained an image of a rather calm Zimbabwe’s Deputy Minister of Health explaining – from his or someone else’s clean and most probably sweet smelling office - the shitty conditions in which many children... How can you be in Solidarity with women and girls in Zimbabwe?
UAE calls for women's participation in the protection of peace & security The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has called on the international community to help boost a balanced women's participation in all efforts being made in the making and protection of national peace, security and stability in their communities and regions, as well as in the decision making process, mediation, reconciliation, administration of humanitarian operations, disarmament and reconstruction efforts. PRESS STATEMENT BY THE BOTSWANA CIVIL SOCIETY SOLIDARITY COALITION FOR ZIMBABWE (BOCISCOZ) We, The Botswana Civil Society Solidarity Coalition for Zimbabwe (BOCISCOZ) are concerned by the current impasse relating to the political agreement signed in Zimbabwe on 15 September 2008... OPEN WOUNDS A report on the political violence in Epworth, Harare, Zimbabwe after the March 2008 harmonized elections. ELECTION OBSERVATION AND VIOLENCE FOR/Zimbabwe has been monitoring and observing elections and conducting trainings in active nonviolence since the late 80’s and has gained both the confidence of the authorities, churches, political players and the general populace at large.
You may be forgiven to immediately think that the dilemma I am addressing here is political: Do I pledge my loyalty to the president or to the prime minister?
HRW: End Juvenile Executions in Iran
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