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Women in Zambia give birth to an average of 4.7 children. [16] However, birth rates are higher for rural, poorer, and non-educated women than their urban, wealthier, and educated counterparts. [ 16 ] 29% of Zambian girls between ages 15 and 19 have given birth or are pregnant; again, girls in rural areas are twice as likely to have children ...
These organizations, e.g., the Women’s Forum and the Zambia National Women’s Lobby, have been fighting for the empowerment of women in politics. [ 5 ] [ 11 ] There is a long history of the suffering and victory behind women’s voting rights and political involvement in Zambia.
In Zambia, abortion is legal if the pregnancy would threaten the mother's life or physical or mental health or those of existing children, or if it would cause a birth defect. Zambia has one of the most permissive abortion laws in Africa, though its restrictions limit access. The Termination of Pregnancy (TOP) Act, passed in 1972, legalizes ...
Dora Moono Nyambe — an influencer known for teaching hundreds of students, opening a school in Zambia and promoting her humanitarian efforts to millions of people on TikTok — has died. She was ...
The Lobby was created following Zambia's transition from a one-party state to a multi-party democracy in 1990. At the time, only seven women served in the Parliament of Zambia out of 150 seats, and only three women served on the Central Committee, the equivalent of today's Presidential Cabinet. The official motto of ZNWL is "WIZER" which stands ...
Zambia is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children subjected to sex trafficking. While orphans and street children are most vulnerable, children of affluent village families are also at risk of trafficking because sending children to the city for work is perceived to confer status.
Zambian women, lured by false employment or marriage offers, were trafficked to South Africa via Zimbabwe for sexual exploitation, and to Europe via Malawi. Zambia was a transit point for regional trafficking of women and children, particularly from Angola to Namibia for agricultural labor and from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to South ...
Mass media in Zambia consist of several different types of communications media: television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, and Internet-based Web sites. The Ministry of Information, Broadcasting Services and Tourism is in charge of the Zambian News Agency which was founded in 1969.