📢 Webinar Alert! Join us for a high-level session on Strengthening the Role of Parliaments in Advancing Regional Trade Integration through the AfCFTA, hosted by UNCTAD & SADC Parliamentary Forum. 🗓 6 November 2025 ⏰ – (GMT+2) 🌍 Zoom Webinar Parliaments play a pivotal role

📢 Annonce du webinaire ! Participez à une session de haut niveau sur le renforcement du rôle des Parlements dans l’avancement de l’intégration commerciale régionale grâce à la ZLECAf, organisée par la CNUCED et le Forum parlementaire de la SADC. 🗓 6 novembre 2025 ⏰ 10h00 –

📢 Convite para Webinar! Participe na sessão de alto nível sobre Reforçar o Papel dos Parlamentos no Avanço da Integração Comercial Regional através da ZCLCA/AfCFTA, organizada pela UNCTAD e pelo Fórum Parlamentar da SADC. 🗓 6 de novembro de 2025 ⏰ 10:00 – 11:45 (GMT+2) 🌍 Zoom

All Set for UNCTAD – SADC PF Collaboration! A panel of parliamentary leaders, trade experts, and regional economic specialists will lead a discussion on Strengthening the Role of Parliaments in Advancing Regional Trade Integration through the AfCFTA. 📅 Date: 6 November 2025 💻

AGOA non‑renewal threatens SADC region’s jobs, exports and industrial gains In a compelling interview with the SADC Parliamentary Forum, Chair of the Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment Committee, Hon. Ruth Mendes, warns that the decision by the United States not to renew

The SADC Parliamentary Forum welcomed new Honourable Members from Mauritius, South Africa, Angola and Namibia designated to the Forum by their member Parliaments including proxies that are attending in place of substantive members. The members will be officially sworn in during

The SADC Parliamentary Forum is delighted to welcome new Honourable Members from Mauritius, South Africa, Angola, and Namibia, designated to the Forum by their respective national Parliaments, including proxies attending on behalf of substantive members. These Members will be

Join the Livestreams. The following sessions of the SADC Parliamentary Forum Standing Committees are now live for you to watch and engage with: 👉 Food, Agriculture, Natural Resources & Climate Action (FANRCA) ▶ https://t.co/SWSqWGb71G 👉 Trade, Industry, Finance & Investment

‘@WinstonMwale highlights our message: “Resource constraints, climate emergencies, and legal gaps must be addressed to strengthen protections for women & girls.” Equality Now continues working with partners to #EndChildMarriage https://t.co/I1djGV57RV @sadcpf @SAYoF_Official

#EqualityNow & @sadcpf launched 2️⃣ new policy briefs to strengthen protection for girls already in marriage & address emerging drivers of child marriage, including #climatechange, #migration, poverty & digital risks. Now available in EN | FR | PT. 🌍 https://t.co/ZSvw7Lhymf

Pregnant and postpartum women must be recognised as climate-vulnerable. During a public hearing in Shamva, experts urged Zimbabwe’s Parliament to broaden the Climate Change Management Bill to include pregnant and postpartum women among vulnerable groups, highlighting how rising

📺 LIVE NOW | Wednesday, 29 October 2025 58th Plenary Assembly Session of the SADC Parliamentary Forum 📍 Premier Hotel OR Tambo, Johannesburg, South Africa TRACK VIII – Presentation & Validation of the Digital Dashboard & MERL Tools 🕘 09:00 – 12:00 Enhancing data-driven

Day 2 | 58th SADC PF Plenary Assembly 🇿🇦 Together with @PlanZambia, Equality Now is presenting today’s session on advancing action to end child marriage across Southern Africa, featuring new policy briefs, key updates, and survivor-focused advocacy. #SADC #ChildNotWife

In her opening remarks, Speaker of Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, Hon. Thoko Didiza, emphasised on the cruciality of regional solidarity and the role of parliaments in addressing critical issues such as climate change, gender equality, food security and advocacy

📺 LIVE NOW | Join the livestream of TRACK VI at the 58th Plenary Assembly Session of the SADC Parliamentary Forum, broadcasting from Premier Hotel OR Tambo, Johannesburg, South Africa. Theme: Enhancing MPs’ Capacity to Understand, Domesticate, and Effectively Monitor the

“The year 2025 marks the 35th Anniversary of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 30 years since the Beijing Declaration, and 9 years since the adoption of the SADC Model Law on Eradicating Child Marriage.” - @sallyncube @sadcpf @SAYoF_Official

Following proceedings the Secretary General of SADC-PF H.E @BoemoSekgoma We are at Premier Hotel OR Tambo, Johannesburg, South Africa 🎯 Theme: Enhancing the Role of Parliamentarians in Advocating for the Signing, Ratification, Accession, Domestication, and Implementation of

Ms Oleen Sang-Opondo, representing Girls Not Brides at the 58th Standing Committee Sessions of the SADC Parliamentary Forum, emphasized the urgent need to end child marriage in Southern Africa, where 32% of young women marry before age 18. She highlighted the significance of bold