{"id":17539,"date":"2019-03-08T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T10:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=17539"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:57:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:57:11","slug":"thabitha-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=17539","title":{"rendered":"Thabitha speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>In the week ahead of International Women&#8217;s Day, Unite hosted Thabitha Khumalo, an opposition MP from Zimbabwe who has come to\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/thabitha-khumalo-dont-know-use-power\/\">highlight the scale of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe,<\/a> with thousands of ordinary people being beaten and raped, severe fuel shortages, prices rocketing and Zimbabwe police targeting trade union leaders in a crackdown on protesters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the video below, Thabitha, who faces security threats at home, explains the situation she and her fellow Zibabweans face under the current government:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LklwVwnsvKw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And on International Women&#8217;s Day today (March 8), Thabitha has an important message for\u00c2\u00a0all women across the world:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2DjCcQVWRag?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the week ahead of International Women&#8217;s Day, Unite hosted Thabitha Khumalo, an opposition MP from Zimbabwe who has come to\u00c2\u00a0highlight the scale of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe, with thousands of ordinary people being beaten and raped, severe fuel shortages, prices rocketing and Zimbabwe police targeting trade union leaders in a crackdown on protesters. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[259,1130,1128],"wps_subtitle":"Thabitha Khumalo MP tells harrowing story of fight for justice","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25458,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17539\/revisions\/25458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}