According to a press release by the worldwide human rights
organization, Williams of the militant Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA)
will address the conference which is expected to be attended by over
1000 Amnesty International members, staff and activists from across the
world.
Williams, who received the U.S. Department of State’s 2007
International Women of Courage Award is no new person to the Zimbabwean
holding cells as she has been continually arrested harassed and
brutalized by the Robert Mugabe regime for her stand against the women
and human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.
Last year Williams and other WOZA activists spent nearly a month in
holding cells after they held a demonstration denouncing the violence
that was going on in the country ahead of the June 27 presidential run
off election..
Other speakers at the conference are Colombian activist,Yolanda Becerra, of
Organization Femenina Popular, who will be honored with the Amnesty
Inetrnational’s  2009 Ginetta Sagan Fund Award for Women’s &
Children’s Rights and Charon Asetoyer, founder of the Native American
Women’s Health Education Resource Center.
The conference is to be held under the title Seizing the Moment, Building the Movement",
The organization will also hold a march in the United States Boston town as part of the convention.
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