JESTINA MUKOKO (Zimbabwe)

Zimbabwe Human Rights Defender.

National Director of Zimbabwe Peace Project: monitors and documents human rights abuses as well as political and/or electoral violence and keen on exposing abuses affecting women and girls, young people, persons with disability and other vulnerable groups.

A Political scientist by training, has worked as a broadcast journalist and is a former news anchor.

One of ten women human rights defenders honored at the 2010 International Women of Courage Awards.

Was abducted in 2008 and was incommunicado for 21 days. She was later detained on charges that were to be permanently stayed in 2009, when the Constitutional court unanimously agreed her rights had been violated by state security agents.

Objective: to collate a litany of human rights abuses committed against citizens, political activists, trade unionists and members of civil society.