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Zimbabwean
CSOs hopes for AU Summit
Zimbabwean CSOs
January 22, 2009
Deeply
concerned about the needless deaths arising from cholera
due to failing public health service delivery arising from the unresolved
political crisis;
Concerned
further about the prevailing climate of impunity including the rampant
and escalating politically motivated and organized violence, the
abductions of civil society activists and legitimate political opponents;
NOTING
WITH CONCERN that the SADC led mediation process was not
done in full conformity with the AU resolution on Zimbabwe adopted
at Sham El Sheikh and has further failed to bring an end to the
political stalemate or to alleviate the deteriorating and worsening
humanitarian crisis;
Deeply
disturbed that despite 5.1 million Zimbabweans requiring
humanitarian assistance, the government continues to frustrate the
efforts of NGOs to work freely in areas of need;
Gravely
concerned that the Zimbabwean crisis has assumed regional
dimensions and now poses a real threat to regional security;
Taking
note that in the face of serious human rights violations
in member states, the AU has increasingly applied the principle
of non-indifference over the principle of non-interference;
Recommends
that:
1. African
Union publicly condemns and calls for an end to the violations/abuses
taking place in Zimbabwe and a full restoration of basic economic,
social, political and civil rights of Zimbabwean people;
2. African
Union formally recognizes that the SADC mediation has failed and
that the resolution of the Zimbabwean crisis be done under the direct
authority of the AU;
3. African Union
invokes the responsibility to protect Zimbabweans from the serious
violations and the humanitarian catastrophe currently unfolding
in Zimbabwe;
4. African
Union decisively deals with Zimbabwe government's failure to respect
African institutions and their decisions such as those of the SADC
Tribunal and the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights.
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