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Human Rights Developments
Defending Human Rights
The Role of the International CommunityA number of NGOs continued to monitor human rights abuses. The Inter-Africa Network for Human Rights and Development (AFRONET) monitored police brutality and prison conditions and in June published its first annual report on human rights in Zambia. AFRONET and the Zambia Independent Monitoring Team (ZIMT) came under attack from government twice: for their statements about the curtailment of rights under the state of emergency and for their call for an independent investigation into allegations of torture of coup detainees, and in May 1998 for being “unpatriotic” because of their lobbying for human rights conditionality during the World Bank meeting in Paris. One of Zambia’s outstanding human rights activists, Lucy Sichone, died in August after a long illness, but her NGO, the Zambia Civic and Education Association continued to provide rights advice for the poor. In July ZIMT began campaigning for gay and lesbian rights and assisted the setting up of an association despite hostile press coverage and a threat from government in September to arrest practicing gays and lesbians. In July AFRONET and Human Rights Watch conducted a joint field mission to the Angolan border and camps receiving Angolans in Zambia. |
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