Articles Tagged “human rights”

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    WANTED: Zenga Zenga in Zimbabwe

    by hiltonmendelsohn on May 29, 2011 | No Comments

    Tweet “We, the people will not brook any dictation from any source. We are a sovereign nation. Even our leaders cannot dictate to us. We will resist that.” It begins and it ends with the…

    Posted in Culture, Featured, Human Rights, Politics

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    Women of Courage: Gertrude Hambira

    by Hilton Mendelsohn on Jun 03, 2010 | No Comments

    Tweet Gertrude Hambira, Secretary General of the General Agricultural and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ), fled after five men and one women who identified themselves as officers from the CID (Criminal Investigation Department) raided…

    Posted in Charity, Human Rights, Politics

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    Tsvangirai and Gay rights in Zimbabwe

    by admin on May 06, 2010 | 1 Comment

    As a young man growing up on the streets of Bulawayo I would have never thought I would be writing a piece in support of Gay rights in Zimbabwe as I find myself doing today. Such is the alarm with which I greet the news that Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for democratic change, has chosen to stand shoulder to shoulder with Robert Mugabe on this I have found myself compelled to write about it. I find it difficult to reconcile the idea that someone who has stood up so boldly for human rights and dignity in would propagate the denial of the rights of a minority albeit based on sexual orientation. It can only be assumed that this is due to some hard-coding within his own psyche that we probably all share or a lack of the political will to take a position that will probably not prove popular.

    Posted in Featured, Human Rights, Politics