What is the Bill of Rights?
The Bill of Rights is a set of legal guarantees that are specifically set out within the constitution to protect fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals. The Bill of Rights is fundamental to democracy and constitutionalism and is the basis of Zambia’s social, political, legal, economic and cultural policies and state action.
The National Constitution (Supreme Law of the Land) is the set of fundamental rules (written or un-written) that control how a government can exercise public power and authority.
“The alignment of taxes to prevailing copper prices will see Zambia benefit in periods of high copper prices while sustaining the industry in periods of low copper prices.”
The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is a household survey carried out by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in conjunction with the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. There have been successive surveys carried out in 2005, 2008 and 2012. On 20th January 2016, The Ministry of Labour and Social Security through CSO launched the 2014 Labour Force Survey Report. Some of the objectives of this survey are to assess the levels of employment to inform policy, to measure the size of the employed population (formal and informal sectors) and to measure income levels among the paid employees (self employed and employers). The LFS provides key indicators of the Zambian labour market. These include but are not limited to; unemployment rate, participation, and employment to population ratio amongst others.
For the purposes of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier. (UNCRC Part I Article 1)