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Zambia: The Need for Human Rights Benchmarks
A Human Rights Watch and Afronet Memorandum
Zambia, once promoted as a model for democracy in Africa, has in recent years been distinguished by a pattern of ongoing human rights abuses targeting the independent media and the political opposition.
Zambian Police Must Investigate Killing of Opposition Leader
Human Rights Watch called on the Zambian police to launch an immediate and comprehensive investigation into the killing of Major Wezi Kaunda, an important opposition figure of the United National Independence Party (UNIP).
Kaunda was killed on Wednesday…
Memorandum To The Consultative Group Meeting On Zambia
The head of the Zambian delegation Minister of Finance Edith Nawakwi at the end of the May 1998 Consultative Group meeting pledged that her government "wants a clean and good human rights record. We were a leader in the liberation struggles of southern…
Zambian Government Cracks Down on Media, Opposition
Human Rights Watch called for Zambia's donors to continue to attach clear human rights benchmarks for the release of payments support, in light of the Zambian government's continued human rights violations.
Balance of payments support was suspended by a…
Former Zambian President's Release Welcomed But Further Steps Needed
Human Rights Watch today welcomes yesterday's release of the former president of Zambia from detention, yet calls on the Zambian government to take further steps to show a commitment to human rights protection.
The state dropped all charges against ex-…
World Bank Consultative Group Meeting on Zambia Maintains Human Rights Conditions
Human Rights Watch welcomes the fact that human rights issues featured prominently during the World Bank Consultative Group meeting discussions on Zambia in Paris (May 12-13).
In it its final communiqué, the delegates at the meeting identified human…
Human Rights Watch Condemns Ongoing Human Rights Abuses In Zambia
Calls on Donor Countries to Make Rights Protection a Priority by Maintaining Conditionality of Aid
Human Rights Watch today called for Zambia's bilateral and multilateral donors to continue suspending balance of payments support, in light of the Zambian government's continued human rights violations.
Today in Paris, the donors, joined as the World…
Human Rights in Zambia since the 1996 Elections
On November 18, 1996 presidential and parliamentary elections were held in Zambia, five years almost to the day since the first multiparty elections in November 1991. The election results returned President Frederick Chiluba and his Movement for…
Elections and Human Rights in The Third Republic
On November 18, 1996, Zambians voted in parliamentary and presidential elections—the second multiparty elections since the end in 1991 of twenty-seven years of authoritarian and mostly single-party rule, under former president Kenneth Kaunda. The Movement…
Model for Democracy Declares State of Emergency
On March 4, 1993 President Chiluba declared a state of emergency, alleging the existence of a plot to overthrow the government by illegal means. The plot, known as the “Zero Option Plan,” was said to have been devised by members of the opposing United…