Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau in The Netherland will visit Zambia this month to learn about the country’s best practices in combating child, early and forced marriage.
Government policies and political will by His Excellency the President, Mr Michael Chilufya Sata and First Lady Dr Christine Kaseba – working with Chiefs, Civil Society organisations and the police – to end abuse of girls and women has attracted the interest of the international community to learn and replicate these initiatives.
Princess Mabel informed Zambia’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Christine Kalamwina that she and Archbishop Tutu will travel to Zambia on September 15, to meet and exchange ideas with Government officials and other stakeholders in the fight against child, early and forced marriage.
Princess Mabel is the chairperson of the board of trustees of Girls Not Brides, a global partnership of more than 300 civil society organisations campaigning to end child marriage.
Princess Mabel was the first chief executive officer of The Elders – a group of eminent global leaders brought together by the late Nelson Mandela to promote peace and human rights – chaired by Archbishop Tutu.
The Zambian Government has received international applaud for its best practices in combating child, early and forced marriage.
Partnership of chiefs, civil society and the Government, is one effective campaign being used to fight child marriages in Zambia. Chiefs support the campaign against child marriages, and most traditional leaders have banned child, early and forced marriage in their chiefdoms. Some chiefs are retrieving young girls from forced marriages. Chiefs and their subjects are reporting parents that marry off their young girl children to the police for prosecution. Chiefs, civil society organisations and Government officials are encouraging parents, and guardians, to prioritise education of girls.
During a General Assembly panel discussion on “Child, Early and Forced Marriage” moderated by Princess Mabel last Friday, Ambassadors of The Netherlands and Canada, and an African Union Goodwill Ambassador commended the Zambian Government for reducing child, early and forced marriage.
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The Tutu’s, the Princess’s, the president’s and you the world’s are most welcome to Zambia. Lesson’s like the one’s provided by former SPW have been so vital in reducing such cases as Early marriages. Adolenscent Reproductive Sexual Health lessons are so important to the communities, teachers and pupils (especially, the Grades 5 – 9)
Ebola, early marriages, Aids boko.. wat ever, dust pollution, noise pollution from politicians just almost everything make me sick including you who’s readin this
iwe ***** if you dont have anything sensible to contribute just shut up!!
why are the cases of rape, early child marriages, defilement on the rise in zambia? Trust me my people, ifi tafyalechitika in such numbers during and before the days of bena kaunda. Ask yourselves, what has caused this? Abakuwa balichenjela sana, they are using totalitarian tip toe to effect some changes of our way of life. And the way to do this is the problem-reaction-solution method. Careful Zambia.
iwe chi zagaze! These things have been happening even in kaunda’s era the only difference is that such cases are now exposed and criminalized. it’s better the voice is loud about such cases than silence. Zambia is now a pillar, leader and an exceptional example in fighting these odd habits. take a chile pill efake mu fridge
ba zombu ducks bena nababosa, and he has no clue what i just wrote. reacting before thinking. I never wrote they never used to happen in those days, i wrote that the numbers are higher now and what i was asking or imploring you to contemplate on was; why this increase in such cases. Things don’t just change for no reason unless there is a force driving that change. Go and ask the french why they made Louis XV king of France and Navarre at the age of five. dont you think it is also child abuse? don’t think in one dimension, try to rotate the problem and see it in all possible situations and angles. now if you are smart enough i will let you try to figure out the connection between the Louis XV story and early child marriages in africa/zambia in the days of past. i have given you a hint