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Event Report:

Round Table Discussion

Wednesday 5th September 2007 - 7:30pm - Holborn

Zimbabwe - Our Response

The Jewish Human Rights Network is staging an exclusive series of intimate round table talks,

featuring a wide range of experts in human rights discussing topical issues.

The first talk in the series examined the appalling human rights abuses in Zimbabwe,

where the government is alleged to violate rights to shelter, food, freedom of movement

and residence, freedom of assembly and protection of the law.

Georgina Godwin spoke movingly about her experience growing up on Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.  Her personal

perspective brought the issues being faced on the ground today to life.

Peter Tatchell spoke frankly about the prospects and methods for achieving policitcal change in Zimbabwe

and emphasised the need to raise awareness in the UK of the latest developments in the crisis there

whilst offering material support to development projects in the country.

The talk was sold out, and was greatly enjoyed by all with many questions and lively discussion.

The next round table discussion will focus on human trafficking.  Details will be posted on this site shortly.

Speakers

Peter Tatchell, a prominent gay rights activist, attempted to perform
a citizen's arrest on Robert Mugabe in 1999 and again in 2001.
 

Georgina Godwin is an exile from Zimbabwe. She is the daughter of a holocaust
survivor and an activist who was forced to leave Zimbabwe after expressing
anti-Mugabe sentiments on her radio show on the Zimbabwe Broadcasting
Corporation. Today she works as a free-lance political analyst.
 She has been declared a 'prohibited immigrant' and faces
immediate arrest if she goes home.
 

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