by Miriam Chabala | Nov 26, 2025 | News
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative in Zambia, Dr. James Wakiaga, this morning paid a courtesy call on the Human Rights Commission of Zambia (HRC-Z), in Lusaka. Dr. Wakiaga conferred with the Commission Director General, Ms....
by Miriam Chabala | Nov 25, 2025 | News
Zambia has marked the start of the 2025 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence with the Human Rights Commission of Zambia (HRC) making a passionate call for justice, accountability, and strengthened national commitment to end all forms of violence against...
by Miriam Chabala | Nov 19, 2025 | News
Pupils at Kasalu Primary School in Nangoma appeared before Commissioners, today afternoon, and voiced out a range of concerns regarding early marriages and teenage pregnancies which they linked to peer pressure, poverty and the negative impact of nearby mining...
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 Miriam Chabala | Nov 19, 2025 | News
A Nangoma resident, Rodgers Mwiya, has raised serious concerns about the continued sexual exploitation of girls by illegal miners, especially foreign nationals who use money to lure vulnerable girls into sexual relationships, leading to pregnancies and exposing them...
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...
