by Muloongo Cheelo | Nov 19, 2025 | News
Commissioners at the ongoing public hearing in Nangoma have heard that, between June 2024 and June 2025, Nangoma Mission Hospital alone delivered 928 pregnant girls between the ages of 15 and 19 years. Alarmingly, sixty-eight of these pregnancies were delivered...
by Muloongo Cheelo | Nov 19, 2025 | News
Mumbwa residents turned out in numbers to submit petitions to the Human Rights Commission of Zambia (HRC-Z) on ending child marriages which continue to rise in the district. The Vice-Chairperson, Dr. Felicity Kayumba Kalunga led Commissioner Laura Mary Miti and...
by Muloongo Cheelo | Nov 16, 2025 | News
The Human Rights Commission of Zambia (HRC-Z) is engaging various stakeholders in Mumbwa as it prepares to hold a public hearing from 18th to 19th November 2025, to inquire into the increasing cases of child marriages being reported in the district. HRC-Z paid...
by Muloongo Cheelo | Nov 13, 2025 | News
The Human Rights Commission of Zambia (HRC-Z), in collaboration with the Zambia Agency for Persons with Disabilities (ZAPD) and the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) engaged 41 persons with disabilities in Chikankata District, during a human rights capacity building...
by Muloongo Cheelo | Nov 5, 2025 | News
The Human Rights Commission of Zambia (HRC-Z) Chairperson, Dr. Pamela Towela Sambo, has called for stronger protection of Adolescents’ Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (ASRHR). Speaking in Lusaka at a Regional Workshop on Legal Frameworks for ASRHR on 5th...
