Gender-based Violence, LGBTQIA+ Rights, and Christian Values in Zambia
Since 2019 the Sistah Sistah Foundation (SSF) has marched in protest of sexual and gender-based violence in Zambia. Zambia’s national Gender Based Violence (GBV) statistics allege that a total of...
Zambia’s Human Rights Project is Political
Zambia’s death penalty can be traced back to the colonial era, with the administration led by former president Frederick Chiluba (1991-2002) being the last post-independence government to sign an execution...
You Have The Right to Insult a President: Repealing Zambia’s Penal Code Section 69
Image description: Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema addresses the European Union from a podium In 1965, Zambia’s first independent president Kenneth Kaunda introduced Section 69 to Zambia’s Penal Code to criminalise...
Indemnity clauses in Mining Development Agreements in Zambia
Zambia has signed indemnity agreements with numerous multinational corporations investing in her mining sector. The agreements enable subsidiaries of international firms to be exempted from liability for environmental pollution that...
Kabwe mine: taking rights seriously in a toxic city
Mining activities in Zambia, while economically beneficial (accounting for roughly 70 per cent of GDP), have produced negative effects, not least pollution to the environment. The scale of industrial pollution...
UK Supreme Court’s Vedanta Case – Hope for Zambian Communities Affected by Mining Pollution
The recent UK Supreme Court case, Vedanta Resources Plc and another v Lungowe and others, affirms the principle that UK companies operating abroad owe a duty of care to those...
Zambia’s police force undermine opposition in Sesheke
Recent reports and video footage of the political unrest in Sesheke’s Parliamentary by-elections have brought to light the disproportionate use of force by Zambia’s police, who opened fire at the...
Legal Gaps in Securing Customary Land Rights in Zambia
The Asa Lato & 30 others case provides an opportunity for Zambia’s High Court to review legal gaps related to the conversion of customary land to registered leasehold tenure, especially...
Governance Gaps Lead to the Displacement of People Living in Rural Communities in Zambia
In Zambia, gaps in governance are allowing commercial farmers to contravene the law. This has resulted in the physical displacement and dispossession of native rural communities as well as the...
The Death Penalty Lives on in Zambia Despite the Country’s Constitutional Reform
Zambia, like most countries in Africa, has retained the death sentence on its criminal law statutes for a limited number of offences. Recently, though, and against the tide of death...
Same Script, Different Cast: A Tale of Zambia’s Constitutional Making Process
On the 24th of October, Zambia celebrated its 49th year of Independence from British colonial rule. While Zambia has been fortunate enough to never have experienced war or civil unrest...
Same Script, Different Cast: A Tale of Zambia's Constitutional Making Process
On the 24th of October, Zambia celebrated its 49th year of Independence from British colonial rule. While Zambia has been fortunate enough to never have experienced war or civil unrest...
