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Zimbabwe civil society demands action from SADC
Crisis
in Zimbabwe Coalition
August 06, 2010
As African leaders
prepare to meet at the SADC Summit in Windhoek this month from 15
to 17, they must draw concrete plans to prevent state-sponsored
violence in Zimbabwe's elections planned for 2011. Crisis
in Zimbabwe Coalition calls upon SADC and AU leaders, as guarantors
of Zimbabwe's Global
Political Agreement (GPA), which created a transitional power-sharing
government to:
- Ensure that
Zimbabwe fully complies with SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing
Democratic Elections - including impartiality of electoral
institutions.
- Urge Zimbabwe
to recognize the right of Zimbabweans in the Diaspora to vote
and put in place necessary administrative mechanisms to facilitate
that vote.
- Facilitate
technical support to the newly appointed Zimbabwe Electoral Commission
by more experienced regional electoral bodies such as the South
African Electoral Commission.
- Bar Zimbabwe
from taking up a position in the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence
and Security for the duration of the on-going mediation process
in Zimbabwe to preserve the independence of the Organ. Even in
Zimbabwe, a player for one side cannot pull on a referee jersey.
Crisis in Zimbabwe
Coalition reiterates the message from Zimbabwean civil society leaders
who travelled to Kampala, Uganda for the AU Summit from July 19
to 27, 2010 and called upon African leaders to ensure that Zimbabwe
is sufficiently prepared to hold credible, free and fair elections
and that the AU stands ready for robust monitoring of those elections.
The AU should actively promote democracy, peace and security in
Zimbabwe and across Africa.
Visit the Crisis
in Zimbabwe fact
sheet
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