The CDDR writes an open letter requesting foreign embassies not to support the "one-party state subsidy."
The CDDR has launched a comprehensive report demanding action. Read more here.
Following the killing of a PF cadre member outside a polling station in Rufunsa, the government blamed the opposition. But was the violence state sponsored? Read more here.
The CDDR is calling on the Zambian government to halt the unlawful persecution of the political opposition. Read the full letter here.
Repressive actions by Zambian police target opposition parties; violate rights to free and fair association. Read the latest alleged violations here.
Following a deadly shooting of protesters by officers of the Zambia National Service (ZNS) in the Kampasa area near Lusaka’s main airport, the Coalition for the Defence of Democratic Rights (CDDR) is calling for a full investigation and an immediate cessation of the use of live rounds for the purposes of crowd control by Zambia’s …
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The following video contains recordings of Zambian President Michael Sata ordering the army to go to Lukula in Western Province to fire upon Zambian citizens, as well as footage of Minister of Justice Wynter Kabimba rousing the cadres to engage in violence during the last campaign, and the footage from Judge Ngoma’s public assault against …
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ZAMBIA’S CIVIL SOCIETY ASKS ZAMBIA’S HUMAN RIGHTS BODY AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO REVIEW ZAMBIA’S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORDS AND DENOUNCE THE VIOLATIONS BY THE ZAMBIAN GOVERNMENT Lusaka, Wednesday, 27 February 2013: AS the Zambia Police arrest and charge Zambia’s opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema, seven (7) Civil Society Organisations in Zambia have called upon the Zambia’s Human …
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The following report was published by Voice of America: An official of the Secretariat of the Commonwealth of Nations says the organization has received a petition from a Zambia group calling for the temporary suspension of the southern African country. Victory Holdsworth says the secretariat has put together a team to review the petition. “We …
Read More →Nevers Mumba, Hakainde Hichilema, Sakwiba Sikota, Edwin Sakala, and Robert Amsterdam present the report to the Commonwealth denouncing rights abuses by the Zambian government on February 12 2013.
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