Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Network-CORONAVIRUS DISEASE (COVID-19) PANDEMIC Toolkit
WHAT DOES THE TOOLKIT CONTAIN?Featured Resources Quarantine in COVID-19 Risk Communication and Community Engagement in COVID-19 Reducing Stigma in COVID-19 Human Rights in COVID-19 COVID-19 & Front-line Health Care Responders MHPSS Interventions in Health Contexts Addressing Gender Issues in COVID-19 Education in COVID-19 Persons with Disabilities in COVID-19 Migrant, Refugee and Internally Displaced People in COVID-19 Child Protection in COVID-19Support…
THE 2019 NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM INCLUSIVE EDUCATION (PICTURES)
“INCLUSIVE EDUCATION-MAKING THE FUTURE ACCESSIBLE“
2019 NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
National Symposium on Inclusive Education in Zambia 2019 Theme: “Inclusive Education – Making the Future Accessible” Terms of Reference and call for abstracts The disability movement in Zambia spearheaded by Disability Rights Watch (DRW) has been among other pertinent issues advocating for the revision of the National Policy on Education (Educating Our Future Policy), the Curriculum Development Framework, administration and…
PRESS RELEASE-2019 MENTAL HEALTH DAY
2019 MENTAL HEALTH DAY PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Recognising Legal Capacity – key to Suicide Prevention 10th October, 2019 LUSAKA -Disability rights advocacy organisations, The Mental Health Users of Zambia (MHUNZA) and Disability Rights Watch (DRW) join global observance of Mental Health Day under the theme suicide prevention. Zambia has continued to lose lives to suicide; depriving the country…
Policy Belief-An Urgent Call for the Repeal of Section 4 of the 2019 Mental Health Act
This policy brief has been prepared by the Mental Health Users Network of Zambia (MHUNZA) and Disability Rights Watch (DRW) in consultation with lawyers from Zambia in academia and private practice, from Validity Foundation (an international non-governmental organisation that uses the law to secure equality, inclusion and justice for people with mental disabilities worldwide) and from the Southern Africa Litigation…
Mental Health Act No. 6 of 2019
The President of Zambia His Excellence Mr. Edgar C Lungu on 11th April, 2019 assented the Mental Health Act in the quest to promote and protect the lives of persons with Mental health issues. The mental Health Act No. 6 of 2019 is An Act to provide for the promotion and protection of the rights of persons with mental illness, mental…
Transforming lives and changing peoples perceptions on disability -TESTIMONY FROM A PARENT WITH A CHILD WITH CEREBRAL PALSY
Disability Rights Watch in partnership partnership with SOS Children Villages Zambia and Archie Hinchcliffe Disability Intervention (AHDI) is implementing a project calledAna- Atukuke A parent from Chadiza district who has a child with cerebral palsy shared her story that after attending the Ana- Atukuke project mobilization meetings, there has been a great change where she stays because she shared…
ZAMBIA: TOWARDS A FULLY INCLUSIVE ELECTORAL PROCESS-By Mr. Wamundila Waliuya
Zambia continues to be a beacon of light in the growth of democracy on the African continent. The country goes to the general elections in August this year under a new constitution that has significantly altered the electoral environment. The amended constitution now demands that for one to ascend to the office of president they must poll at least…
