Campaign Begins in Zanzibar As Tool to Fight Gender Violence

Campaign Begins in Zanzibar As Tool to Fight Gender Violence
AllAfrica.com
AN upsetting story happened recently about partners who gave away an infant because they did not want to raise the kid born outside marriage. A man, father of the baby, from Dodoma and a Zanzibari lady, fell into love and unexpectedly had pregnancy!

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Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

10 Aug

Let’s join hands to fight gender violence

The Zanzibar President, Dr Ali Mohammed Shein, has once again expressed disgust over the alarming rise of cases of abuse against children and women in Zanzibar compared to the situation in the past.

 

10 years ago

Daily News

05 Sep

Hai police enhance gender violence fight

Hai police enhance gender violence fight
Daily News
POLICE have reinforced efforts in dealing with gender based violence in Hai district, as it urges the public to fully cooperate in eliminating it. Speaking in Hai recently, District Gender Desk Head, Corporal Happiness Eliufoo called upon citizens, civic ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

29 May

Police step up fight against gender-based violence

In strengthening efforts and extending war against gender-based violence, at least 414 gender desks have been set up at different police stations in the country, the House heard yesterday.

 

11 years ago

Daily News

18 Jan

Gender violence on the rise in Zanzibar

Gender violence on the rise in Zanzibar
Daily News
ZANZIBAR'S one-stop-centre at Mnazi-Mmoja Referral Hospital had more than 900 reported cases of gender violence between 2012 and 2013, officers at the centre said. “We had 924 cases of abuse dealt with at the centre. These included defilement, rape, ...

 

9 years ago

IPPmedia

24 Sep

Zanzibar due to go orange for campaign for combating violence against women ...

Zanzibar due to go orange for campaign for combating violence against women ...
IPPmedia
At least 40 drivers of commuter buses and taxis in Zanzibar are on Saturday expected to join the UN Secretary General's UNiTE Campaign to End Violence against Women. Known as the Orange day, the unique UNiTE campaign will involve daladala and taxi ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Nov

INSIGHT: Gender equity needed to mitigate gender violence

>From November 25 to December 10 every year, gender and human rights activists across the world participate in 16 days of activism against gender-based violence directed especially towards women and girls.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Apr

‘Literature can be a tool to fight oppression’

He is seldom heard, he seldom speaks in public. The last time he gave a speech in front of a crowd was at the poetry prize giving event that has been named in his honour, Ebrahim Hussein Poetry Prize for Kiswahili writing.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Feb

Stopping gender violence

Rahima* is a girl who has had a harrowing experience of being raped. Some two years ago, Rahima was raped at her parents’ house by a neighbour.

 

11 years ago

Daily News

20 Feb

Gender violence must be halted

Daily News
Gender violence must be halted
Daily News
A RESEARCH carried out by the Tanzania Media Women Association (Tamwa) has shown that gender violence is perpetrated notoriously in most Zanzibar Districts. The human rights abuses include rape, underage pregnancies and wife bashing. Incredibly ...
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