Hear Us, Stand with Us - Sign petition in support of Zimbabwean Women

By admin Submitted on 19 August, 2009 - 10:58

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In 2008, political violence erupted throughout Zimbabwe as a result of the contested national elections. Zimbabwean women of all ages were targeted for their political affiliations.

Local organizations estimate that state-sanctioned groups abducted, raped, tortured, and beat over 2,000 women and girls from May to July. The local police have ignored these women's pleas for protection and justice, and national leaders have been equally unresponsive to local and international demands for accountability and redress. Hear Us – a video co-produced by Zimbabwean Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) and WITNESS - features four of these women who have come forward to demand justice from the Zimbabwean government and the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Hear Us, Stand with Us

Witness just launched the online push to support RAU in its campaign for justice/accountability for the Zimbabwean women who were raped,tortured, abducted, and beat after the 2008 elections.

Now they are asking everyone to send and help collect messages of support that will be delivered to SADC leaders in the lead up to the SADC summit (which begins in Kinshasa on Sept 2). The organisers are hoping to get 2000 messages in the next 2 weeks ­ a combination of video messages, petition signatures, twitter (re)tweets, comments, etc.

Sign petition - click on links below

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/600/t/9751/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=20

http://hub.witness.org/HearUsStandWithUs