Advocacy & Campaigns

Six Zimbabwean activists are on trial and may face the death penalty for watching a video about the revolts in Egypt. They had been detained since February 19 and suffered physical and mental abuse. Although released they now have to find US$12,000 bail.

Like most people at the World Social Forum in Dakar in 2011, I share the exhilarating feeling of the ‘spirit’ of success, in defiance of all the challenges that the organisers faced.

On the 21 March 2011 Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape will have a mass rally at VE informal settlement at 10:00 till 13:00.

Two Comrades Lost to Shack Fires on the Night Before the UPM Vigil in Grahamstown
Unemployed People's Movement (UPM) statement

13 March 2011

Charges against another 39 people who attended the meeting were dropped this week. A new website has been set up for the Free the Zimbabwean Treason Trialists campaign.

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Human rights and political activists in Zimbabwe are facing a major clampdown, with over 60 currently held in detention and many allegedly tortured. In Harare, 45 people have been charged with treason and face the death penalty if convicted.

8 March 2011
HE Sibabrata Tripathi
High Commissioner for India
Jeevan Bharat House
Harambee Avenue
Nairobi

Your Excellency:

Re: Anti-ICC campaign by a Coalition partner in the Government of Kenya