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Zambian authorities must implement the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' recommendations

A range of Zambian organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) and other civil society organizations (CSOs) – who early in March this year made submis . ....

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Zambia: Zambian authorities must implement the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' recommendations

Zambia: Zambian authorities must implement the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' recommendations
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Bolstering Women's Political Power: Lessons from the EU's Gender Action Plan II - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic crisis have deepened existing gender inequities. The EU should strengthen its efforts to address the barriers to gender equality by promoting and supporting women’s political empowerment. ....

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Bolstering Women's Political Power: Lessons from the EU's Gender Action Plan II - Carnegie Europe - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic crisis have deepened existing gender inequities. The EU should strengthen its efforts to address the barriers to gender equality by promoting and supporting women’s political empowerment. ....

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Zambia: Challenging denial of legal capacity for persons with mental disabilities – Southern Africa Litigation Centre

SALC is supporting a petition by a person with psychosocial disabilities and the Disability Rights Watch (DRW) to repeal Section 4 of the Mental Health Act of 2019 in
Katontoka and Another v the Attorney General. The Petitioners argue that the provision unconstitutionally infringes on the rights to dignity, liberty, freedom of expression and conscience and to freedom from discrimination of persons with mental disabilities as it denies persons with mental disabilities the right to enjoy legal capacity on the same basis as others. This, it is argued, is also contrary to Zambia’s international obligations under the Convention on the rights of Persons with Disabilities. ....

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