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UN committee to review Zambia on human Rights

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President Edgah Lungut at Commemoration of United Nations International Humans Rights Day at Government Complex in Lusaka , Picture  by EDDIE MWANALEZA/STATEHOUSE.10-12-2015
President Edgah Lungut at Commemoration of United Nations International Humans Rights Day at Government Complex in Lusaka , Picture by EDDIE MWANALEZA/STATEHOUSE.10-12-2015

Zambia is among the 169 states that will be reviewed by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) at a meeting to be held on January 20, 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.

The meeting, which will be chaired by the committee of 18 independent experts, is part of the UN requirement that all the 196 states that have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child undergo regular examinations of its record on the rights of children.

The committee of 18 independent experts will prior to the review meetings, hold discussions with a delegation from the Zambian government on how it is implementing the Convention on the Rights of Children.

Among the issues to be discussed are how the best interests of the child are given due consideration in customary law, raising awareness of harmful effects of child marriage, sexual exploitation and abuse, adolescent pregnancies and high maternal mortality rate and neonatal deaths.

Other issues include measures to eliminate direct and indirect costs of education, high drop-out rates and measures to collect comprehensive disaggregated data on children and resources for the office of the Commission on Children.

This is according to the information posted on the United Nations website and monitored by ZANIS in Lusaka today.

6 COMMENTS

  1. SPECIAL WARNING TO THE UN COMMITTE
    -BE SENSITIVE THE WAY U HANDLE NATIONS THAT GOING TO THE POLLS
    YOUR ANALYSIS CAN CAUSE CHAOS IN NATION WHERE POLITICAL PARTIES ARE AT NOT IN GUD TERMS LIKE ZAMBIA ‘S PF AND UPND
    YOU CANT BLAME ANY SINCE THEY ATTACK EACH OTHER
    WHAT IS YOUR MAIN OBJECTVE OF DOING SO IF ITS JUST TO LIST THEM BEST TO THE WORST SO WHAT NEXT,CONFUSION? MORE PEACE?
    YES ITS GUD BUT WHAT HAS BEEN THE OUTCOME OF THIS.
    #KEEP YOUR LIST FOR A ACTION BASED APPROACH TO SORT PROBLEMS IN NATIONS LIKE SYRIA, LIBYA ETC LISTING THEM TO BE BAD JUST WORSEN THE NATIONS

  2. UN ARE NOT SERIOUS. UN THEMSELVES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE REVIEWED FOR RACISM AGAINST BLACK AFRICANS BEFORE THEY REVIEW ZAMBIA OR ANY OTHER AFRICAN NATION. I FIND THEM A VERY RACIST ORGANISATION TO ACTUALLY DENY AFRICA A SEAT OR TWO IN THE SECURITY COUNCIL. SO, WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY GOING TO REVIEW ABOUT ZAMBIA. WHY DIDN’T THE UN REVIEW AMERICA AND SOME EUROPEAN COUNTRIES WHEN THEY KILLED MILLIONS OF IRAQIS? I WONDER- IS THIS SO CALLED MONITORING BY UN ONLY ACTIVE ON AFRICAN STATES. WHY DON’T WE AFRICANS JUST LEAVE THE UN? IT DOES LITTLE FOR AFRICA APART FROM SPOTTING AND AIRING OUT AFRICA’S WEAKNESSES, EVEN WHERE THEY DON’T EXIST. HAS ANYONE EVER HEARD WESTERN MEDIAS TALKING GOOD ABOUT AFRICA? THEY ONLY WRITE ABOUT AFRICA WHEN SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS- AND THEY ARE UNITED NATIONS. WITHOUT…

    • UN ARE NOT SERIOUS. UN THEMSELVES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE REVIEWED FOR RACISM AGAINST BLACK AFRICANS BEFORE THEY REVIEW ZAMBIA OR ANY OTHER AFRICAN NATION. I FIND THEM A VERY RACIST ORGANISATION TO ACTUALLY DENY AFRICA A SEAT OR TWO IN THE SECURITY COUNCIL. SO, WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY GOING TO REVIEW ABOUT ZAMBIA. WHY DIDN’T THE UN REVIEW AMERICA AND SOME EUROPEAN COUNTRIES WHEN THEY KILLED MILLIONS OF IRAQIS? I WONDER- IS THIS SO CALLED THEY ONLY WRITE ABOUT AFRICA WHEN SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS- AND THEY ARE UNITED NATIONS. WITHOUT THE INTERNET (WHICH JUST CAME RECENTLY), NO AFRICAN WOULD HAVE EVEN BEEN THINKING OF GOING BACK TO AFRICA. ONE WOULD THINK THE WHOLE AFRICA IS ON FIRE AND YET ONLY FEW COUNTRIES WITH PROBLEMS INFLICTED BY THE WEST BECAUSE OF THEIR WEALTH. WAKE UP AFRICA. UN IS NOT FOR…

    • UN IS NOT FOR YOU. AFRICA IS JUST A RUBBER STAMP. UN COMMITTEE OF WHATEVER, ZAMBIA HAS EVER LIVED IN PEACE EVEN WHEN YOU SANCTIONED YOUR ECONOMIES DUE TO ZAMBIA’S LIBERATION STRUGGLE IN THE REGION. ANYWAY, WE CAN UNDERSTAND THE FURY OF UN- GRZ HAS REFUSED TO BORROW MONEY FROM THEIR OPPRESSIVE ORGAN. AFRICA ASK YOURSELF- WHAT DOES UN THINK OF YOU BY LEAVING OUT OF UN SECURITY COUNCIL. THEY THINK OF YOU AS STILL A SLAVE. WAKE UP, MAN.

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