The call was made by LDH chairperson Alice Mabota, during the celebrations of the International Human Rights Day, on Sunday, celebrated this year under the theme "Tranquility and Public Order in the Country".
"The Mozambican people should emerge from their slumber", she exclaimed. "The time has come to wake up and demand an end to brutality and violence".
Mabota said that the right to life in Mozambique is in jeopardy, particularly for women and children. "Domestic violence is a reality", she declared, "and so is violence against children at all levels, including sexual abuse and child labour".
"The right to food, to housing, and to health, have not yet become a reality in this country, and we want them to be", she said.
Mabota also attacked the degrading situation in the country's prisons and police stations, where "conditions do not exist to treat people humanely".
SOURCE: AIM
