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Zambia: Enact Law to Curb Sexual Violence

New Center Will Treat and Support Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

The Zambian government should adopt a comprehensive law to curb sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and accelerate establishment of hospital-based coordinated response centers to help the victims and survivors, Human Rights Watch said today. Care…
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The costs of marital rape in Southern Africa

For years now, women’s groups in Southern Africa have campaigned tirelessly to ensure that the Southern African Development Community adopt the Protocol on Gender and Development. Yesterday, the SADC finally took that historic step. Member states will be…
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SADC: Adopt Gender and Development Protocol

Summit Leaders Should Act on Equality for Women

(Johannesburg) - Southern African leaders should adopt the proposed Gender and Development Protocol at their upcoming summit after amending it to include crucial provisions deleted in 2007, Human Rights Watch said today. One of the most important…
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Women and HIV/AIDS

The Human Rights Council reviewed Zambia’s report under its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism in Geneva last Friday (9 May), and adoption of the report took place this week on Wednesday (14 May). Here in Lusaka, women, including those who…
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Universal Periodic Review of Zambia

Human Rights Watch's Submission to the Human Rights Council

Gender-Based Abuses in the Context of HIV In Zambia, where 17 percent of the adult population is living with HIV/AIDS, women face grave gender-based abuses, in particular domestic violence, which hinder their ability to access or continue using life-…
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Hidden in the Mealie Meal

Hidden in the Mealie Meal Gender-Based Abuses and Women's HIV Treatment in Zambia I. Summary II. Key Recommendations to the Government of Zambia and Zambia National Assembly III. Methodology IV. Background Gender and HIV/AIDS in Africa.. Access and…
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Zambia: Abuses Against Women Obstruct HIV Treatment

(Lusaka, December 18, 2007) - The Zambian government is failing to address the life-threatening obstacles facing Zambian women living with HIV who experience domestic and gender-based violence, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Gender-…
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SADC Gender and Development Protocol: How it can Save Lives

Published in Zambia Daily Mail TODAY, the heads of state of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) meet in Lusaka to discuss – among other issues – a key weapon in the war on poverty and disease: women’s equality. My experience from…
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SADC: Take Action to End Zimbabwe Rights Crisis

Send Human Rights Monitors to End State Brutality

(Lusaka) - Government leaders gathered this week at a summit in Lusaka, Zambia should urgently press Zimbabwe’s government to end its broadscale attack on human rights, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released today. Human Rights Watch called…
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U.N. Summit: Barriers to Schooling Undermine Goals

World Leaders Must Fulfill Millennium Target for Primary Education

(New York) - Children around the world face systematic barriers to schooling that are undermining global progress towards universal primary education, Human Rights Watch said today in a report released ahead of the U.N. World Summit. Human Rights Watch…
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Africa: Gender Inequality Fuels AIDS Crisis

Success in Fighting AIDS Hinges on Protecting Rights of Women and Girls

(New York, December 1, 2003) — Violence and discrimination against women and girls is fueling Africa’s AIDS crisis, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today on World AIDS Day. African governments must make gender equality a central part of…
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Policy Paralysis

POLICY PARALYSIS: A CALL FOR ACTION ON HIV/AIDS-RELATED HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS IN AFRICA      SUMMARY II. ABUSES OF WOMEN AND GIRLS THAT FUEL HIV/AIDS.. HIV/AIDS and Abuse of Girls Risks to Women and Girls in…
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African Dictatorships: No Place to Hide

Africa is becoming less safe for dictators and warlords. Facing growing pressure to step aside, Charles Taylor, the warlord-cum- President of Liberia, finally left Monrovia for exile on August 11. Besieged by rebels, indicted by Sierra Leone’s Special…
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President Bush's Trip to Africa

U.S. President George W. Bush will be traveling to Africa from July 7-12, visiting Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda, and Nigeria. This packet from Human Rights Watch includes material for each stop along the way. A brief overview of the Bush…
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More Than a Name:

MORE THAN A NAME State-Sponsored Homophobia and Its Consequences in Southern Africa TABLE OF CONTENTS Glossary of Key Terms I. Introduction A.  Summary B.  Contexts: HIV/AIDS, Inequality, Identity C. Brief Recommendations II. The…
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Commitment to Establish Program on Sexual Abuse in Zambia

HRW recently received a letter from the office of the President of Zambia, Levy Mwanawasa, stating that following his review of our report on sexual abuse of girls in Zambia and how this exposes them to HIV infection, he ordered the establishment of an…
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Meanwhile: Young girls in Africa cornered by AIDS

LUSAKA - The strikingly higher infection rates among adolescent girls compared to boys in Zambia and many other parts of Africa reveal a disturbing trend: the AIDS epidemic is being fueled by the abuse and subordination of young women. Sexual violence and…
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Suffering in Silence

Suffering in Silence:The Links between Human Rights Abuses and HIV Transmission to Girls in Zambia TABLE OF CONTENTS I.  SUMMARY.. II.  RECOMMENDATIONS To the Government of Zambia To the donor community To the United Nations…
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Zambia: Protect Young Girls from Forced Sex With HIV-Positive Men

As the international Aids conference continues in Barcelona, there is a special and urgent need to protect young girls and women from HIV infection

Aids in Africa ravages millions of lives, those infected as well as those affected. Increased international mobilization, particularly the XIV International Conference on AIDS in Barcelona, is crucial, but one acutely vulnerable group continues to suffer…