Gender equality SDG top priority

It’s four months since Jane (pseudonym) was employed and like many young graduates who wait excitedly to be employed, she clearly saw her once shattered dreams coming true when she was officially given her employment contract. But soon after she started her job, it came to light that Jane was pregnant.

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Katiba Must Streamline Gender Equality
AllAfrica.com
MIXED reactions have greeted the proposed draft constitution tabled in the Constituent Assembly (CA) in Dodoma this week. Indeed, there have been varying opinions from members of the public and organisations, some hailing the document as a job well ...
Where goes the 300000/- in a dayDaily News

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'New Constitution Honours Gender Equality'
AllAfrica.com
THERE is jubilation among women in different regions, after the Draft constitution decided to include a section that gives women the power to own and inherit land, just like their male counterparts. Women activists associations are among the groups which ...
Final draft commended for upholding women's rightsIPPmedia

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Activists demand gender equality in new cabinet
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Human Rights' activists have called upon President John Magufuli to be gender sensitive when appointing his cabinet. Speaking at a press conference yesterday in Dar es Salaam, chairman of the Feminist Activist Coalition (FemAct), Abdullah Othman said ...

Promoting gender equality and empowering women has been an international outcry that the United Nations summit of September 2000 decided to give priority to as the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3).

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Parties urged to support gender equality
IPPmedia
The Women and Constitution Coalition in Tanzania has threatened to influence all women and other marginalised groups in the country to stop supporting any political party without the agenda to protect women's rights and dignity. It also said that parties that ...
Activists for women candidates in coming pollsDaily News

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Gender equality, human rights in new Constitution - minister
IPPmedia
The government remains committed to gender equality and advancement of human rights especially now when the country is working on a new Constitution, the deputy minister of Community Development, Gender and Children, Pindi Chana has said.

The Guardian
Women's places: the fight for gender equality in tourism
The Guardian
On the slopes of Mount Meru in northern Tanzania, Fatima Faraji welcomes guests to her 20-acre coffee plantation, where she harvests only the fullest cherry-red arabica berries. Hand-picked by a team of experienced women, the coffee is pulped and ...

>Certain things just chose to happen when you least expected them, a friend has been accused of gender violence because he disciplined his mischievous wife.