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April 5, 2024

Zambia: Zambian authorities must implement the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ recommendations

05/04/2024 A range of Zambian organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) and other civil society organizations (CSOs) – who early in March this year made submissions to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the Committee) ahead of its examination of Zambia’s compliance with and implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) – have…

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October 31, 2023

Lighter Note from a Lighter Note

17th April, 2023 Disability Rights Watch (DRW) wants to drop a “lighter note” from the “lighter note” His Excellence, the President Mr Hakainde Hichilema dropped last Friday. On Friday, 14th April, 2023, the President swore in the Police Inspector General and several Permanent Secretaries. During his address to the sworn in officials, the President paused on a “lighter note” a…

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October 31, 2023

MORE WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES NEEDED IN DECISION MAKING POSITIONS

Press Statement For Immediate Release LUSAKA Wednesday, March 8, 2023 Disability Rights Watch joins the rest of the world in celebrating International Women’s Day which falls under the theme: “DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality”. We acknowledge that the theme is current with developments regarding women’s inclusion in all spheres of life. But we want to stress once more…

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April 7, 2022

DRW COMMENDS THE APPOINTMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

Disability Rights Watch has extolled the appointments of persons with disabilities to public service boards by President Hakainde Hichilema. Disability Rights Watch Director Mr. Wamundila Waliuya has said that the appointments are a bold step towards the inclusion of persons with disabilities in decision making. Mr. Waliuya says the move by president Hakainde Hichilema is in recognition and upholding principles…

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March 2, 2022

GLOBAL DISABILITY SUMMIT (GDS22)

Commitments by Disability Rights Watch (DRW) 2022 to 2025 The Global Disability Summit was held on 16th and 17th February, 2022 in Oslo, Norway. It was held virtually and DRW attended the whole session gathered with other partner Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) at the DRW Board Room in Lusaka. At the GDS, different OPDs and Governments made Commitments towards enhancing…

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February 17, 2022

Need to Commission a Study on the Quality of Education for Children with Disabilities in Zambia

We, Disability Rights Watch (DRW), in conjunction with Zambia Association of Parents for Children with Disabilities (ZAPCD) here write to your office to commission a study on the quality of education for children with disabilities in Zambia. We make this submission owing to the fact that the experience of DRW and ZAPCD in working directly with children with disabilities, both…

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February 16, 2022

GLOBAL DISABILITY SUMMIT 2022

The Global Disability Summit is finally here. The international Disability Alliance (IDA), the Government of Norway, and the Government of Ghana are hosting the second Global Disability Summit from 16-17 February 2022 in Oslo Norway. The event is being held on a digital platform due to the Covid19 pandemic. The summit will mobilize efforts of the implementation of the United…

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February 14, 2022

DRW END OF 2021 NEWSLETTER

DRW DIRECTOR EDITORIAL COMMENT The year 2021 was significantly a politically charged year because of the general elections which took place on 12th August. It was a year of uncertainty in terms of which political party would emerge victorious between the UPND and the PF under the leadership of the then election candidates Mr. Hakainde Hichilema and Mr. Edgar…

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February 8, 2022

WELFARE OF WOMEN AND GIRLS WITH DISABILITIES IN ZAMBIA

This memorandum is being submitted to the Parliament of Zambia with the invitation from the Committee on National Guidance and Gender Matters on the welfare of women and girls with disabilities in Zambia. As we make this submission, we wish to bring to the attention of the Committee the generally accepted language of addressing persons with disabilities is as just…

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January 24, 2022

Commitments to create a more Disability Inclusive Zambia – Delivering Quality Inclusive Education

Questions are being raised around the possibility of having quality inclusive education in the quest to create a disability inclusive Zambia. Such questions do not have immediate answers of “yes it is possible” or “no it is not possible”. Maybe this is why it is still difficult to explicitly define ‘inclusive education’ with a one world-wide accepted definition. Therefore, we…

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