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Urgent
request for intervention to protect Zimbabwe farmworkers' union
leaders
International
Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco
and Allied Workers' Associations (IUFAHRCTAWA)
February 26, 2010
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To:
Mr. Juan Somavia, ILO Director-General; Fax: +022 799 8533
Concerns:
further urgent request for intervention to protect Zimbabwe farmworkers'
union leaders
Dear Mr Somavia,
We have been
informed by our affiliate, the General Agricultural and Plantation
Workers Union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ) that they are again under attack
by the Zimbabwean security services.
I attach three
documents which give background on the current situation. We are
informed that Mrs Hambira, the union general secretary who we wrote
to you about on November 10, 2009, has managed to get to a safe
house but now other union officials are being harassed in an attempt
to get them to reveal her whereabouts. Two officers were arrested
- the assistant general secretary, Gift Muti, and president
Manjemanje Munyanyi. Mr Muti was later released but Mr Munyanyi
remains in police custody.
As we informed
you before, Gertrude Hambira has been an official of GAPWUZ for
many years and has consistently campaigned for justice for Zimbabwe's
farmworkers. She has attended ILO meetings on several occasions.
We are again
obliged to request urgent intervention from the ILO to ensure the
safety of Gertrude Hambira and other GAPWUZ officials.
We request
your office to contact both the President and the Prime Minster
of Zimbabwe to convey our concerns and to insist that Hambira is
not harmed and her physical and psychological well-being is fully
assured.
Yours sincerely
Ron Oswald
General Secretary
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