LHRC trains media on human rights

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Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) and Tanganyika Law Society (TLS) intend to challenge the High Court's ruling that as corporate bodies they had no authority to file a constitutional petition against Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda's remarks on law ...

LHRC deploys researchers nationwide for Human Rights and Business Report
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Thirty research assistants have been deployed to all regions of Tanzania mainland to conduct an assessment on adherence of human rights in the country for this year's Human Rights and Business Report. The initiative is a brainchild of the Legal and Human ...

The call by the African Court of Human and People’s Rights (AfCHPR) for the media to promote human rights on the continent could not have come at a better time. It adds to the growing concerns over the abuse of human rights not only in East Africa, but also in many parts of the continent recently.

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Media: Inside the Tanzania Human Rights Report 2013
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The Freedom of Opinion and Expression n are among the rights which have been identified in this report. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 identifies the right to freedom of opinion and expression as the freedom to hold opinion without ...
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Human rights body trumps civil rights, governance knowledge
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THERE is an urgent need to formulate and lay down principles and guidelines to further strengthen the criminal justice system in the country with regard to arrest, police custody and pre-trial detention to ensure compliance with International standards.

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LHRC: Set up mechanism to protect women`s rights
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Legal and Human Right Centre (LHRC) will continue to advocate for legal framework that can protect Tanzanian women against Gender Based Violence (GBV), the centre's Executive Director said. “We need to put forward strong mechanism and laws to ...

 Democracy as a normative framework requires constitution builders to support and guarantee civil and political rights. Since rights are indivisible, there are many rights recognised as economic, social, cultural or collective whose recognition completes political rights and makes it possible to realise them.

President Jakaya Kikwete yesterday bid farewell to employees of the Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance (CHRGG) expressing optimism that his administration had done a great job in protecting people’s rights.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 states in paragraph 1 of its Preamble that recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.