Jestina Mukoko
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Jestina Mukoko (born:22 March 1967).
- [[1]]. She is the current Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum Chairperson, a Zimbabwean human rights activist and a former director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project.
- [[2]]. She is a journalist by training and a former newsreader with the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.
- [[3]].
Quotes
[edit]- “I came out of this experience not a bitter person, but a better person.”
- [[4]]
- "It will not make for lost time as my liberty and all other human rights accorded to me by virtue of my being human was unjustifiably curtailed."
- [[5]]
- I came out of this experience not a bitter person, but a better person; better in the sense that I was able to understand what fellow Zimbabwean activists had been going through all this time
- I am so relieved to know that the charges against me have been dropped, but I think the victory was only possible because of the support from the international community, fellow journalists and colleagues in civic society, and human rights defenders
- I view the judgment in a positive sense, in that it resulted in a reform of the judiciary, especially at a time when the country is going through a constitution-making process, and that the same charges brought against other activists will be dropped
- It is difficult at this stage to give a detailed account of what I went through because it is such an emotional subject. I would really have to psych up for that kind of discussion
- It has been suggested that it may have been because of the work that our organization was doing, but I was shocked that I was being charged for recruiting people to undergo military training
- I am a widowed mother, and what I went through brought a lot of trauma to my family, especially to my son, who did not know if he had lost the only remaining parent that he had
- Jestina Mukoko - "Not bitter, but better",1 October 2009
- The challenge that we have before us is to heal those wounds. And we need to be able to look back and say we don’t want that to happen again
Quotes about her
[edit]- “Many have even risked their lives to advance justice, freedom, and equal rights for everyone."
- [[6]]
Awards {{Navboxes |title = Awards for Jestina Mukoko |list = Template:Laureate of the City of Weimar (Germany) Human Rights Prize (2009) Template:U.S. Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award (2010) Template:NANGO (National Association of Nongovernmental Organizations) Peace Award Template:French National Order of the Legion of Honor award (2011)
- [[7]]
- However, it is a victory for the rule of law,constitutionalism and a mortal blow to impunity.**[[8]]
