{"id":231884,"date":"2026-04-30T15:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-rightscon-cancelled-as-global-attacks-on-srhr-and-digital-freedoms-intensify\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:54:59","slug":"zambia-rightscon-cancelled-as-global-attacks-on-srhr-and-digital-freedoms-intensify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-rightscon-cancelled-as-global-attacks-on-srhr-and-digital-freedoms-intensify\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: RightsCon Cancelled as Global Attacks on SRHR and Digital Freedoms Intensify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Zambian government has abruptly cancelled RightsCon 2026, the world&#8217;s largest conference on human rights in the digital age, just five days before it was set to begin in Lusaka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">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\u00a0 RightsCon 2026 , the world&#8217;s largest conference on human rights in the digital age, just five days&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604300107.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zambian government has abruptly cancelled RightsCon 2026, the world&#8217;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), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,306,8052,9633,10835,6212,10475,257,54306,254,36636,4709,881],"class_list":["post-231884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attacks","tag-cancelled","tag-digital","tag-freedoms","tag-global","tag-intensify","tag-news","tag-rightscon","tag-south-africa-today","tag-srhr","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}