Tanzania: More Needs to Be Done to Achieve Gender Equality
Tanzania: Although all the 17 UN-backed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are important, “gender equality” coming as high up as item…
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We Need Strategies to Safeguard Schoolgirls
Tanzania: Action Plan, a non-governmental organisation, has come up with a project aimed at safeguarding the welfare of schoolgirls in…
Civil Society Pushes for EAC Gender Equality Bill
East Africa: The Eastern African Sub-regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI), together with affiliated regional civil society…
Respecting Women’s Rights
Tanzania: Women have suffered a great deal at the hands of some men. Some only gather the courage to speak…
Tanzania: Gender Based Violence Escalating
Tanzania: A RECENT survey has shown that gender based violence is spiraling with pronounced cases occurring in Kagera, Mara, Mwanza…
Pregnant Women Face Violence
Tanzania: An Interdisciplinary research project has come out with preliminary findings that in Northern Tanzania one in every three women…
Insufficiency of forensic evidence stymies fight against GBV offenders
Tanzania: Insufficient collection of forensic evidence and poor management of scenes of crime are a stumbling block in cracking the…
FGM Rituals Remain Dangerous
Tanzania: Early marriage is a serious social problem in this country. Underage marriage is one of the principal causes of…
Tanzania cracks down on “sextortion” by public officials
Tanzania has warned its public officials that using positions of power to extort sexual favours from women will no longer…
Attacks on elderly Tanzania women spark plan against witch hunters
Tanzania: A rising number of attacks on elderly women in Tanzania accused of witchcraft has prompted the launch of a campaign…