New Dignity! Period. video
By Laura | July 30, 2010
Imagine having to go without sanitary protection to be able to buy basic items such as food and clothes. This is the problem facing many Zimbabwean women today.
Over 90 per cent of Zimbabweans are unemployed and 80 per cent of the population live below the poverty line. Women bear an unequal burden of the crisis with a HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of 21 per cent and a life expectancy of just 43 years. The economic situation in Zimbabwe means proper sanitary protection is expensive and many women resort to using unhygenic alternatives.
ACTSA’s Dignity! Period. campaign supplies much needed sanitary protection to the women of Zimbabwe working with the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions. View our new Dignity video to find out more:
Dignity! Period (ACTSA) on Vimeo.
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30 years on: What is life like for the women of Zimbabwe?
By Info | May 21, 2010
In the 30 years since Zimbabwe gained independence much has changed within the country. From the early days of success when the country was referred to as the bread basket of Africa, Zimbabwe in recent years has slid into political and economic chaos, which the heavily criticised power-sharing agreement of 2008 between ZANU PF and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) seeks to resolve. Life for Zimbabwean women has followed this rollercoaster of change and as the country struggles to overcome political and economic difficulties, women continue to bear the greatest burdens.
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The voice of Zimbabwe’s workers
By Laura | April 29, 2010
By Rebecca Davis, ACTSA Member, April 2010
Lovemore Matombo looks tired. It’s not surprising: it’s 9am on Monday morning, at his hotel near Euston, and he’s had a gruelling few days already. These trips to London are important. As the President of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), it’s his job to ensure that relationships are maintained with the powerful UK unions, NGO allies, and agenda-setters in Brussels.
The ZCTU has been a potent force in Zimbabwean politics for almost three decades. Formed in 1981, it provided increasingly vocal opposition to the regime of Robert Mugabe during the 1990s. It was the ZCTU which contributed the impetus behind the formation of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change: MDC head Morgan Tsvangirai is a former Secretary-General of the ZCTU. Read the rest of this entry »
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