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Title: Be a Human Rights Monitor in Zimbabwe!
Location:
Global
Categories: Health
Human Rights
Peace & Conflict
Status:
In Progress
Timeline:
April 29 09 to June 1 09
Description:
This project is to promote and support Physicians for Human Rights and Amnesty International\\\'s petition and photo drive to send human rights monitors to Zimbabwe. The petition calls for the United Nations and the African Union to send civilian human rights monitors to Zimbabwe to forestall further human rights abuses and to help ensure Zimbabwe’s fledgling unity government’s transition toward democracy and rule of law.
Background:
During the past three decades that Mugabe and his ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), have been in power, the Government has established a record of gross human rights abuses that is well documented. Human rights organizations have shown how the Mugabe government has carried out policies designed to cause suffering and loss of life to specific groups of people. Groups they have targeted include the Ndebele ethnic minority concentrated in Matabeleland, as well as Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters.\\r\\n\\r\\nZimbabwe was once Africa’s breadbasket, but is now in complete ruins. The health and nutritional status of Zimbabwe’s people has acutely worsened this past year due to a raging cholera epidemic, high maternal mortality, malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and now anthrax. The cholera epidemic is an outcome of the health system collapse and of the failure of the Government to maintain previously operative safe water and sanitation systems, and provide prompt infection control and patient care. The epidemic, having claimed the lives of more than 4,000 people and infected nearly 100,000, is a man-made disaster, was likely preventable, and has become a regional health and security issue because of the failure of the state to respond to the health and basic living needs of its people.
Objectives:
Get as many people as possible to sign the petition and participate in the photo petition drive so we can stand in solidarity with Zimbabwe! We can not watch in silence as these atrocious human rights abuses continue.
Needs:
Please sign the petition here: http://zimhumanrights.org/sign-the-petition/\\r\\nParticipate in the photo petition here: http://zimhumanrights.org/sign-the-petition/
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