To mark International Women’s Day, members of the local Zimbabwean community joined Amnesty International activists in a solidarity event with the extraordinary women human rights activists of Zimbabwe.
Metro Éireann’s editorial on 26 February was right to acknowledge that there is little to celebrate in the human rights situation in Zimbabwe. Earlier this month we called for the African Union and the United Nations to send monitors to investigate human rights violations committed by Zimbabwe’s security forces during the current transitional period.
We are also campaigning for the release of Jestina Mukoko and the release of 10 members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) and three journalists with Radio Dialogue who were all arrested in Bulawayo on 14 February. I’d ask people to log on to www.amnesty.ie to take action in support of these people.
Our event on Sunday was a celebration of resistance, of bravery, of the unshakeable determination of the women of Zimbabwe to win a better future for their people.
Noeleen Hartigan,
Programmes director,
Amnesty International Ireland
