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Country: Zambia Committee: 6th legal Name: Ryan Winters Country Profile: A. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 1. Zambia 2. Tropical; with a rainy season between October and April. 3.

a. Zambia ’s location is in Southern Africa which is east of Angola. b. Some of Zambia’s physical features are the high plateaus with some hills, mountains and the Zambezi River 15 00 S, and 30 00 E.  c.  Zambia is 752,614 sq km.  B.  POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY 4. Zambia is part of the republic; the name of the government is The Republic of Zambia. 5. Lusaka 6. Some of Zambia’s international organization participants are:  ACP, AfDB, AU, C, COMESA, FAO and that’s just naming a few. 7. has a military must be 18 to join 16 by parent consent. C. CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY 8. English is the official language; some other languages spoken are Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga, and about 70 other languages. 9. population; 11,669,534, population growth rate; 1.654%, and population distribution. 10. Ndola, Kitwe, Chingloa, Mufulira, Kabwe, Livingstone, Chipata, Lundazi, Mongu all are towns. 11. Infant mortality rate; 100.96 deaths Average life expectancy rate; 38.59 years. 12. teachers and doctors per population in Zambia. D. ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 13. $1,400 per capital 14. 6.3% of land is used for agriculture. 15. Copper, cobalt, zinc, lead, coal, emeralds, gold, silver, uranium, and hydropower. 16. Corn, sorghum, rice, peanuts, sunflower seeds, vegetables, flowers, tobacco, cotton, sugarcane, tapioca, coffee; cattle, goats, pigs, poultry, milk, eggs, hides industries; copper mining and processing, construction, foodstuffs, beverages, chemicals, textiles, fertilizer, horticulture. 17. Major exports and imports; Electricity, Oil, Natural gas, Exports; 4.594 billion Imports; 3,611 billion. 18. Zambian kwacha(ZMK) per us dollar- 3,990.2. 19. The balance of trade is $4.5 billion in Zambia 20. In the early 19th century Africa had invasions in the south. The Shaka of the Zulu, and Nguni clan, set about creating a centralized militaristic state. Three of these groups were to make a forceful impact on Zambia, 1500 km to the north of the Zulu heartland in eastern South Africa. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/za.html II. Background: (20 points) a. Every country has a different level of censorship. This varies form each culture and history of the country. This includes arguments about religion, national security, parental claims, economic issues, and governmental issues. b. They focus on books, music, the internet, and speech. Last year 2600 had to be because of the censorship by the governments. Some of the people don’t know the information exists. c. In Africa lack the knowledge is derived an undependable of information. d. **1980** Zambia witnessed the advent of the Stuctural Adjustment (SAP). Food riots began as a result of lifting subsides on maize meal. The Zambian Government made a retreat and revert to its familiar domain of controls. Zambia held the world Confrence on Social Development in Copenhagen. The President of Zambia announced that poverty levels in Zambia must be reduced from then prevailing level of 70 percent to 50 percent by 2004. November the Zambian Government appointed the ministry of community development and Social Services. The average growth rate over more than a decade was close to nil and the human condition deteriorated in terms of every standard indicator. Money- metric incidence of poverty rose from 60 percent in 1980 to 73 percent in 1998. the draft NPRAP was presented at a national Consesus Building workshop in November. Refinments were then made to draft and the Cabinet readied the revised NPRAP in January for approval.
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http://www.uneca.org/prsp/docs/prsp_final/Zambia.PDF III. UN Involvement: (25 points) http://www.un.org/News/Prtess/doc/2005/gashc3843.doc.htm http://www.miszambia.org/zm/media/news/viewnews.cgi?category=3&id=1061447261 b. ACP, AfDB, AU, C, COMESA, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURCAT, MONUC, NAM, OPCW, PCA, SADC, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO c. the UNESCO branch has concerns from reports of foreign countries killing reporters and the un has great concerns. d. UNESCO,CPJ IV. Country Policy/Possible Solutions: (35 points) a. Zambia has no resolutions past yet but they will come up with one. b. Africa supports censorship, but we have no knowledge of it and Zambia supports it as well. c. Since the 1990s Zambia has 1.6 million internet users and the UN thinks that 14% are globally from developing countries and zambia is one of them. d. Zambia would strongly support censorship. e. There have been none so far but we will support cencorship. We are looking for any solutions to afree with. V. Miscellaneous Points http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu6/2/fs20.htm