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...

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...

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...

Chief Mumba of the Kaonde speaking people in Mumbwa District has taken it upon himself to end child marriages in his chiefdom by dissolving child marriages and sending girls back to school. This came to light when Human Rights Commission Vice-Chairperson Dr. Felicity...