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November 24, 2009

Women of Zimbabwe Arise Honored At White Hosue
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And the leaders of the group Women of Zimbawe Arise have won this year’s
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. At a White House ceremony last
night President Obama praised the group’s defiance of Zimbabwean
president Robert Mugabe.

Magodonga Mahlangu: “We deserve to have a roof over our heads. We
deserve to have food in our stomachs, our children in schools and the
nation working. We deserve to live in dignity and free from fear and it
is our right to have our voices heard and respected. That is why I
joined WOZA, simply for those reasons. While Mugabe boasts of having a
degrees in violence, I and the 75 thousand strong WOZA members who stand
beside me have degrees in non-violence. Our aim is to uphold
universality and non-violence for a better life for ourselves and for
our children.”



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