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CSOs to petition Kuwait for return of enslaved Zim women

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Zimbabwe Women in Politics Alliance (Zwipa) and the Zimbabwe Activist Alliance (ZAA) will today petition Kuwait to return Zimbabwean women allegedly enslaved in the Asian country.

Zimbabwe Women in Politics Alliance (Zwipa) and the Zimbabwe Activist Alliance (ZAA) will today petition Kuwait to return Zimbabwean women allegedly enslaved in the Asian country.

by Staff reporter

women carry donated food by  World Vision  from a food distribution point near Mabhiza (1)

Women will march to the Kuwaiti Embassy in Harare under the hash tag #BringBackOurwomenfromkuwait#.

The march will start at 9am from Megawatt Building to the embassy in Belgravia.

Zwipa chairperson Lynnette Tendayi Mudehwe said the purpose of the march was to force Kuwait to return the women.

“We will demand that all Kuwait and Zimbabwean agents of human trafficking be brought to book. We will march right to the Kuwait Embassy in Belgravia and hand them a petition to force them to bring back our girls,” Mudehwe said.

“We also demand that all migrations to Kuwait be monitored by the Government of Zimbabwe and that Kuwait apologises for the slavery treatment of Zimbabwe.”

Mudehwe said over 200 women were expected to participate in the march.

Last month, a Kuwait Embassy official, Brenda Avril May, was arrested together with several Zimbabwean accomplices on allegations of trading over 200 women from Zimbabwe for slavery under the pretext they would be provided with employment.

Mudehwe said the Zimbabwean women, upon arrival in Kuwait, would be forced to work for 22 hours a day and be put in brothels and become sex slaves.

Some of the women are already back in the country, while others are still reportedly stranded in Kuwait and Dubai.

“Our women are stranded in Kuwait and we want them to come back home,” Mudehwe said.