Zimbabwean Officials to be Held Accountable in South Africa

Posted on May 15, 2012

Last week, South African authorities passed a law requiring their officials to investigate and prosecute members of Robert Mugabe’s government guilty of torturing political opponents. Click here to read Peter Godwin’s op-ed in The New York Times about this landmark human rights law and the resistance it faces from South Africa’s own police force.

Click here to learn more about Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives, Voice of Witness’ collection of oral histories from the people who have endured Zimbabwe’s tragic decline.

Voice of Witness is a non-profit organization that uses oral history to illuminate contemporary human rights crises in the U.S. and around the world. Founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/human rights scholar Lola Vollen, Voice of Witness publishes a book series that depicts human rights injustices through the stories of the men and women who experience them. The Voice of Witness Education Program brings these stories, and the issues they reflect, into high schools and impacted communities through oral history-based curricula and holistic educator support.

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