Zimbabwe: Activists Launch New Campaign - 'Stand Up for Zimbabwe'

press release

Thousands of people in dozens of cities across Africa and the rest of the globe will demonstrate their solidarity with victims of rights abuses in Zimbabwe on Sunday, 25 May 2008.

The Stand Up For Zimbabwe campaign – organised by a coalition of  African civil society organisations including the Southern Africa Litigation Centre, East Africa Law Society, Treatment Action Campaign, the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition and the Congress of South African Trade Unions – is highlighting the continuing political crisis in Zimbabwe and calling on people across the globe  to press the Southern African Development Community,  African Union,  and the United Nations to act decisively to end systematic political violence in Zimbabwe and  resolve the country’s long-standing  political crisis.

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