19 • Publicly express concern about the government of Zimbabwe’s failure to prevent, prosecute and punish human rights violations against women human rights defenders and their male counterparts. • Publicly express support for human rights defenders in Zimbabwe and use their influence to support them to carry out their work without fear of reprisals. • Recognize that women human rights defenders are human rights defenders in their own right, and ensure that they are consulted on issues relating to their security and protection as human rights defenders. • Express concern over the ill-treatment of human rights defenders by the government of Zimbabwe, through their embassies in Harare. In relation to financial and material support to women human rights defenders, • Donors who are able to give support to dependants of women human rights defenders while they are in custody should do so where the government is unable or unwilling to do so. Such support should include provision of food packs to children under the care of women human rights defenders during the time when their mothers or carers are in custody. • Funding agencies should ensure that adequate funding and resources are available for the full protection of women human rights defenders and promotion of their rights. Glossary ACHPR African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights African Charter African Charter on Human and People’s Rights CAT Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment GAPWUZ General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe GMB Grain Marketing Board HRC UN Human Rights Committee ICCPR International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ICESCR International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights MDC Movement for Democratic Change MOZA Men of Zimbabwe Arise NCA National Constitutional Assembly POSA Public Order and Security Act RBZ Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe UN United Nations WAG Women Action Group WOZA Women of Zimbabwe Arise ZANU-PF Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front ZCTU Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions ZIMCET Zimbabwe Civic Education Trust ZINASU Zimbabwe National Students Union ZLHR Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights ZRP Zimbabwe Republic Police ZWLA Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association ******** (1) Amnesty International, Zimbabwe: Power and Hunger – violations of the right to food, 15 October 2004, AI Index: AFR 46/026/2004. (2) United Nations: Report of the Fact Finding Mission to Zimbabwe to Access the Scope and Impact of Operation Murambatsvina by the UN Special Envoy on Human Settlements Issues in Zimbabwe, 22 July 2005. (3) According to UNICEF an estimated 1.1million children had been orphaned by the AIDs pandemic by 2005, http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/zimbabwe_statistics.html#25 (4) See Amnesty International: Zimbabwe Rights Under Siege, May 2003, AI Index: AFR 46/012/2003.