Source: SW Radio Africa
Zimbabwe pressure group Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) on Wednesday teamed up with a key Egyptian activist in the UK for a seminar on human rights and the power of the public.

Jenni Williams, the WOZA coordinator, was set to address the seminar in Coventry alongside Sherif Joseph Rizk, whose work helped lay the foundations of the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt last year. Rizk was due to talk about his part in the occupation of Tahir Square in Cairo.

Williams meanwhile was set to talk about her campaign to improve social and political rights for women in Zimbabwe.

Williams recently scooped the coveted Ginetta Sagan Amnesty International USA award in recognition of her efforts to protect the liberty and lives of women and children. She is the second Zimbabwean woman to receive the award in four years, after Girl Child Network founder Betty Makoni won it in 2008.

Since 2003 Williams has led peaceful protests involving thousands of women and men, who have all endured harassment, arrests and violence for demanding social and political reforms in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe.

WOZA also encourages women and men to speak out about issues they may be too fearful to raise alone, including domestic violence and rape.

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