User:Wacoz/Wacoz

Wacoz is a underground protest group and Non-governmental organization based in Zimbabwe, affiliated with Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum. They are pro-democracy, and they embrace supporters of all pro-democratic political parties, civic organizations and institutions with an emphasis on women and children‘s right. They claim of firm currently is providing cell phone video cameras which videotape the brutality of the Mugabe regime and the failures of the Unity Government when it comes to the rights of Children and Women. Wacoz is committed to challenging and confronting - through non-violent activism - the way in which the ruling party, Zanu-PF, governs Zimbabwe. Wacoz is not affiliated to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) at all; in fact, the we believe some members of the opposition have significantly contributed to the brutality and torture of women and children in Zimbabwe or have simply turned a blind eye on their rights. Wacoz stands for Women and Children of Zimbabwe.

Wacoz communicates with its supporters primarily via its blogs and will start distributing a underground news letter in August of 2009. They also have a website, and they run a monthly article serious highlighting the Women and Children of Zimbabwe.The government has imposed very tight restrictions on the media in Zimbabwe, and very few newspapers or radio stations that are critical of the government are permitted to operate. Some members of Wacoz remain underground due to the fear of kidnapping and torture. During the election campaign three members of the Wacoz Team were brutality beaten, with one member passing away due to their injuries.

Social Campaign
Through a clever network of reliable Churches and women’s groups all over Zimbabwe, Wacoz has been able to distribute medical, educational, and media reports to the people secretly for three years without incident due to the organizations mission to exclude politicians from all levels of Zimbabwe society. Our network of women provides the resources for rape and torture support, nutrition campaign, provides micro loans to group members, and school supplies to children grade 1 to grade 7 (expansion of program in the works).

Human Rights Monitoring
Wacoz underground video network is a program which was started by two founding members of the group. The network gathers secret videos filmed in prisons, government offices, and the mining fields in Marange. for distribution to media networks. Currently, the network has gathered enough video evidence which has already been distributed to several media outlets highlighting the human rights violences revolving around Zimbabwe’s precious minerals specifically Gold and Diamonds. Wacoz is currently seeking funds to produce its own full feature documentary to highlight these crimes against humanity.

On June 01th, 2009 a member of Wacoz was arrested for helping the wife of a Zimbabwean farmer smuggle some equipment from a farm which was occupied after the new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said “We have investigated examples of those so called farm invasions. We have asked the minister of lands (ZANU PF) to give us a detailed report of what has been happening over all these so called farm invasions and the outcry over that”, Brian is currently facing charges of theft, disorderly conduct, and insulting the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe.