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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Zambia is one of the prominent and outstanding countries that have committed to respect and fulfil the rights and fundamental freedoms of persons with disabilities. This is demonstrated through the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities just within two years from the time it came into force in 2008. After the ratification of the Convention,…
