FEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS OF ZAMBIA (FFTUZ) SECRETARY GENERAL BRIEF! DATE: 17TH MARCH, 2020 FFTUZ RIDING THE WAVE- WHERE DO WE START FROM?? The SDG 1 is about Ending Poverty in all its forms. One of the targets of SDG1 is that by 2030, the World will have eradicated extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day. The SDG Progress report on goal 1 highlights: “Despite having a job, 8 per cent of the world’s workers and their families still lived in extreme poverty in 2018. The situation remains particularly...

JOINT PRESS BRIEFING OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS ON CONSTITUTION OF ZAMBIA [AMENDMENT] BILL 10 HOSTED BY MISA-ZAMBIA MONDAY, 16 March 2020 Tomorrow, on Tuesday, 17th March, 2019, elected representatives of the 17 million Zambian will have an opportunity to consider and debate the Constitution of the Republic of Zambia Amendment Bill No. 10 of 2019 when it is presented for second reading together with the Report of the Raphael Nakacinda-led Parliamentary Committee that was scrutinising the Bill. This process is part of the steps to bringing to a close the amendment process of our Republican Constitution that commenced 3 years...

*WE NEED A PROACTIVE AND HOLISTIC NATIONAL RESPONSE ON PRE AND POST SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC!!* ====================================== We may get to what some people may call… It is a Global Crisis! Ni Chi Golobo!! *The Corona Virus Lock Down will soon DISRUPT GLOBAL ECONOMY… This will be a worst Economic Crisis that may require National Agenda Setting and Develop a response mechanism NOT only securing health response system but also SET Internal Economic Solutions that may Focus on addressing likely economic and social problems that are likely to beset various categories of our population. The poor...

PRESS STATEMENT For Immediate Release Dan Haag, Netherlands Tuesday, 3rd December 2019 ZAMBIA NOT AMONG COUNTRIES UNDER ICC INVESTIGATIONS Zambia has continued to uphold and align itself with the principles and values of the International Criminal Court- ICC with regards to end impunity. This came to light, when Prosecutor of the ICC Mrs Fatou Bensouda announced the names of countries under the Court’s investigation to the on-going 18th Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC, in the Netherlands. Among the countries named are Nigeria, Guinea, Ukraine, Venezuela, Columbia, Libya, Darfur, Georgia, Philippines and...

PRESS STATEMENT  Lusaka, Saturday 14th March, 2020 – The Drug Enforcement Commission recorded a 2.12 percentage annual increase in the number of arrests made in 2019 from a total of 5, 352 persons compared to 5,241 arrested in 2018. Of the total number of people arrested, 294 were female while 5, 058 were male. Juveniles between the age of 11 and 17 accounted for 370 persons. Further, 3, 541 drug related cases were concluded at court as at 31st December, 2019 which included 2, 945 convictions and 114 acquittals. The remaining 482 were concluded on various outcomes. On overall, a total of 135.08 tonnes of...

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