Zambia: RightsCon Cancelled as Global Attacks on SRHR and Digital Freedoms Intensify

The Zambian government has abruptly cancelled RightsCon 2026, the world’s largest conference on human rights in the digital age, just five days before it was set to begin in Lusaka.

At a time of growing global rollback on fundamental rights, including freedom of expression, access to information, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), the Zambian government has abruptly cancelled  RightsCon 2026 , the world’s largest conference on human rights in the digital age, just five days…