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This dissertation focused on assessing the legal a frame work and institutional efficacy in a bid to protect the rights of street children as enshrined in the Universal Declaration for Human Rights of 1948 and the African Charter of Human and Peoples Rights of 1981. The objective of this research...

This study is a review of youth rights information regarding its relationship to socio-economic development. In order to achieve the aim of the study, information was sought from Youth Alive Zambia, Human Rights Commission, the 2006 National Youth Policy, various published materials inform of...

Defilement is a social problem which affects all members of society. Statistics indicate that there is an increase in the number of defilement cases reported but very few defilement cases are prosecuted. While there are a number of sexual offences against children, defilement is the most...

This study examines the prospects and challenges for the inclusion of economic, social and cultural rights in the Constitution of Zambia. The argument put forward is that the most effective way of ensuring that citizens enjoy their basic rights to food, housing, safe and clean water, sanitation,...

Like many other commonwealth countries, Zambia has a written Constitution to offer guidance on how the country should be governed. Despite the availability of the Constitution, government and public officers in Zambia do not act or make decisions in line with constitutional dictates. For...

The Lands Tribunal was set up with the aim of creating a forum through which land-related disputes could be disposed of in a quick, flexible and cost effective manner. However, its functions were greatly undermined by jurisdictional restrictions imposed by the Lands Act as well as the various...