Zimbabwe

FROM ISO ZIMBABWE:

Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA)

Tuesday 2nd December

Trial of Williams and Mahlangu postponed to 22 January 2009

It is hard to think of a figure more reviled in the West than Robert Mugabe. Liberal and conservative commentators alike portray him as a brutal dictator, and blame him for Zimbabwe’s descent into hyperinflation and poverty.

In times of war and political crises women and girls, mostly civilians, become targets of violence. “A feature of these conflicts is that the civilian population is increasingly ‘caught up’ in the conflict or even deliberately targeted by parties to the conflict.