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August 6, 2018

Zambia Should Keep Young Mothers in School

In Zambia, 28 percent of girls and young women aged 15 to 19 are mothers or have been pregnant. That is more than 275,000 teenagers.

Children's Rights

August 6, 2018 Dispatches

Zambia Should Keep Young Mothers in School

Susan Raqib
Senior Coordinator, Children's Rights
Children's Rights

July 13, 2018 Dispatches

East African Bishops Should Support Education for Pregnant Teens

Elin Martínez
Researcher, Children's Rights Division
Children's Rights

June 14, 2018 News Release

Africa: Pregnant Girls, Young Mothers Barred from School

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October 25, 2017 Video

Video: Rural Communities Displaced by Commercial Farms in Zambia
June 23, 2016 Video

"We are Girls, Not Brides": First Anthem to End Child Marriage
July 15, 2014 Video

Zambia: People With Disabilities Left Behind in HIV Response

Reports More Reports

June 14, 2018

Leave No Girl Behind in Africa

Discrimination in Education against Pregnant Girls and Adolescent Mothers
October 25, 2017

“Forced to Leave”

Commercial Farming and Displacement in Zambia
July 15, 2014

“We Are Also Dying of AIDS”

Barriers to HIV Services and Treatment for Persons with Disabilities in Zambia

News

October 4, 2018 Letter

Human Rights Watch letter to Zambia Ministry of Education
March 27, 2018 Commentary

Zambia Should Protect Customary Land Rights

Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Researcher, Women's Rights Division

Published In: Times of Zambia
November 15, 2017 Commentary

How Commercial Farms Are Ripping Apart Zambian Communities

Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Researcher, Women's Rights Division

Published In: Place
November 14, 2017 Commentary

Corporate Self-Regulation Is a Global Crisis

Christopher Albin-Lackey
Senior Legal Advisor

Published In: Foreign Policy in Focus
October 25, 2017 Witness

Witness: Stripped of Their Brick Home, Living in a Mud House

Audrey Wabwire
Senior Press Officer East Africa
October 25, 2017 News Release

Zambia: Commercial Farms Displace Rural Communities
October 20, 2017 Commentary

“We slept out in the open air like wild animals”

Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Researcher, Women's Rights Division

Published In: Al Jazeera
July 13, 2017 Dispatches

Where is Zambia’s President Heading?

Dewa Mavhinga
Director, Southern Africa
April 10, 2017 News Release

Zambia: Support International Criminal Court
March 30, 2017 UPR

Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Zambia
February 1, 2017 Dispatches

AU's 'ICC Withdrawal Strategy' Less than Meets the Eye

Elise Keppler
Associate Director, International Justice Program
November 2, 2016 Commentary

Africans Speak Out Against ICC Withdrawal

Sarah Rayzl Lansky
Senior Associate, International Justice Program

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Zambia

Reversing Autocrats’ Attacks on Rights: Daily Brief

Daily Brief

January 17, 2019

HRW launches its 2019 World Report, with a positive message saying there are signs that autocratic rule is facing a powerful counterattack; uncertainty continues in Zimbabwe following violence which has left many people dead; the world's biggest jailer of journalists, Turkey, has just deported a foreign reporter; and what next for Kenya, as it takes stock following a shocking attack on a hotel?

Interactives More Interactives

July 14, 2014

Zambia: People With Disabilities Left Behind in HIV Response