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...

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...

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...