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CHAMBO NG’UNI, Kabwe CHILD marriages are among the most retrogressive practices hampering girls’ education in Zambia, especially in rural areas. Many ethnic groups, aided by age-old traditions, with the support of traditional leaders, have for a long time supported child marriages, much... Read More

Every single day in Zambia, an average of 15 people are arrested for drug offenses, mostly for cannabis. Some of these victims are as young as 11-years-old, and almost all of them are poor and powerless. The inhumane prison overcrowding we are... Read More

Eighty four pupils have dropped out of school this year alone in preference to early marriages in Chembe district of Luapula Province. The pupils are from the newly upgraded Kundamfumu and Myengele secondary schools. Head teachers from the two schools confirmed this... Read More

When Raneem Abras, 16, fled the devastation in Aleppo, Syria, three years ago, her family found safety in Lebanon’s Chouf Mountains. But some dangers have followed them – in the form of marriage proposals. Poverty and insecurity have pushed many Syrian refugee... Read More