By JESSIE NGOMA-SIMENGWA  – WOMEN in Zambia, like everywhere else around the world, face many obstacles as they try to exercise their rights. Despite the great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over...

BY CHRISTABEL CHIWILA  – MEDIA Network on Childs rights and Development (MNCRD) Executive Director Henry Kabwe has said the move by Government to close schools so that children can be protected from the Coronavirus is...

By BRIAN HATYOKA  – ISSUES around maize and mealie meal prices have remained topical and sensitive in Zambia for some time now. This is because maize, which is the raw material for producing mealie meal,...

By CHRISTABEL CHIWILA  – GENDER and Development minister Elizabeth Phiri says delays to distribute sanitary towels in schools is due to challenges in data mapping to capture the number of girls in each school. Ms...

By FRANK CHING’AMBU – NGOMA yetu inatubika, namichima inahokoka, (our traditional drum has deflected and our hearts are fluttered) a Luvale saying to describe the chief’s death or any other senior official of the land....

By CHRISTBEL CHIWILA – SEVENTY girls in the range of 12 and 17 years old have been withdrawn from early marriages in Muchinga Province. Young Women Christian Association (YWCA) Muchinga Province acting coordinator Losaria Nyirenda...

By Jessie Ngoma-Simengwa – KILLINGS resulting from soured love relationships have reached alarming proportions both in Zambia and other countries around the world. The rising number of love-related murders has proved to be more prevalent...

By Jessie Ngoma-simengwa – FOR a long time, the focus of intervention in Gender-Based Violence (GBV) has been slanted towards survivors of different types of abuse. The holding of perpetrators accountable through the judicial system...

By Jessie Ngoma-Simengwa – THE common notion in a typical Zambian society that marriage is only fulfilled when a woman bears children has come under scrutiny. Today, infertility has become a global reproductive health issue...

THE rising cases of gender-based violence (GBV) in Zambia in the recent past call for enhanced multi-sectoral interventions in order to halt the scourge. While women are the majority affected by violence, men too have...