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Zambia has participated in the regional annual World Children’s Day Commemoration, with renewed commitment to uphold and promote children’s rights.
Regional leaders from Zambia, Zimbabwe,Botswana and host, Namibia, joined children drawn from the four countries, to commemorate the Day in Walvis Bay, under the theme:”Renewing Our Promise for Children’s Right’s”.
A call to action was presented by children to their respective Governments on issues affecting them,in order for workable interventions to be put in place to promote and protect their welfare.
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Collectively, the children called on their leaders to increase education opportunities through a practical curriculum that will also encoprate the mental health aspect.
They further advocated for laws that will protect them from various forms of abuse, and for countries to adopt climate smart interventions that are centred on environmental management.
The children further called for interventions to be put in place against alcohol and substance abuse,teenage pregnancies and forced marriages, and for increased social protection programmes that are children centred.
President Hakainde Hichilema has since reaffirmed Zambia’s renewed commitment to uphold and foster children’s rights.
President Hichilema has assured regional African leaders that Zambia is therefore harmonising all legislation pertaining to children.
Speaking in a speech read on his behalf by Minister of Community Development and Social Services, Ms. Doreen Mwamba, during the event last night, Mr Hichilema said stiffer punishment for perpetrators of violence against children such as child marriage and defilement as well as other forms of child rights violations have been stiffened.
He said other than the new law, such as the Children’s Code Act, the Zambian Government will soon be reviewing the national child policy to ensure that new and emerging issues which impact negatively on children are addressed.
“The commitment is demonstrated through enactment of new laws and formulation of policies meant to uplift the living conditions for our children. in 2022, we enacted the children’s code act which has enhanced the protective environment for our children by harmonising all legislation pertaining to children”, he further said.
He said government has mainstreamed issues affecting children, such as introduction of free education meant to increase acces to education for all children, increasing constituency development fund (CDF) for purposes of providing desks for children and increased recruitment of health personel to promote quality health and improved nutrition security.
In the social protection sector, the President outlined a number of social protection programmes being implemented aimed at improving the welfare of children and families across the nation, such as the Keeping Girls in School programme (KGS), the Food Security Pack (FSP), among many others.
And the regional leaders have extended an invitation to the entire continent to join in the commemorations in order to promote continental networking on issues affecting children on the continent.
Namibian President, Mr Hage Geingob,noted that continental integration is important in the formation of a united Africa.
