Zambia

US Government Reports

U.S. Department of State	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999 Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Violating Rights – Enforcing the World’s Blasphemy Laws – Criminal Blasphemy Laws as of 2020 - Dec. 2020 International Religious Freedom Report - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 Trafficking in Persons Report - 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005
U.S. Department of Labor	Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012,
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)	Respecting Rights? Measuring the World’s Blasphemy Laws – July 2017
CIA	Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments The World Factbook - Zambia
Congressional Research Services (CRS)
Library of Congress - Law Library of Congress (LLOC)	Family Reunification Laws in Selected Jurisdictions - July 2014

Non-Government Organization Reports

Amnesty International	We are facing extinction: Escalating anti-LGBTI sentiment, the weaponization of law and their human rights implications in select African countries - Jan. 2024 Amnesty International Report 2022/23: The state of the world’s human rights - Mar. 2023 Ruling by fear and repression "The Restriction Of Freedom Of Expression, Association and Assembly In Zambia" - June 2021 Death Sentences and Executions 2020 - Apr. 2021 “Treated like furniture” Gender-Based Violence And COVID-19 Response In Southern Africa – Feb. 2021 The State of African Regional Human Rights Bodies and Mechanisms 2019-2020 - Oct. 2020 Authorities escalate attacks on dissent by denying youth leaders right to protest - June 2020 Rising Impunity And Lack Of Accountability – Nov 2017
BBC	Timeline
Country Maps	University of Texas at Austin - Map Collection
Election Guide	Recent Elections
Freedom House	Freedom in the World - 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 Freedom on the Net - 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
Human Rights Watch	“We Have to Be Worried” The Impact of Lead Contamination on Children’s Rights in Kabwe, Zambia – Aug. 2019 "Forced to Leave" Commercial Farming and Displacement in Zambia - Oct. 2017 “We Are Also Dying of AIDS” Barriers to HIV Services and Treatment for Persons with Disabilities in Zambia – Jul. 2014 “You’ll Be Fired if You Refuse” Labor Abuses in Zambia’s Chinese State-owned Copper Mines - Nov. 2011 Unjust and Unhealthy HIV, TB, and Abuse in Zambian Prisons - Apr. 2010 Hidden in the Mealie Meal Gender-Based Abuses and Women’s HIV Treatment in Zambia - Dec. 2007 Suffering in Silence: The Links between Human Rights Abuses and HIV Transmission to Girls in Zambia - Jan. 2003 No Model of Democracy: Continuing Human Rights Violations - May 1998 The Reality Amidst Contradictions: Human Rights in Zambia since the 1996 Elections - July 1996 Elections and Human Rights in The Third Republic - Dec. 1996
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	Fact sheet on the breakdown of refugees, aslyum-seekers and IDPs in Southern Africa (as of April 2023) - July 2023
World Health Organization	Webpage

Country Profiles

Amnesty International	BBC
Freedom House	Human Rights Watch

Updated April 25, 2024