On World Population Day Ban Ki-moon calls to protect women’s rights

 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Not since the end of the Second World War have so many people been forced from their homes across the planet. With nearly 60 million individuals having fled conflict or disaster, women and adolescent girls are particularly vulnerable.  Violent extremists and armed groups are committing terrible abuses that result in trauma, unintended pregnancy and infection with HIV and other diseases.  Shame and accountability rest squarely on the shoulders of the...

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

IPPmedia

16 Oct

Population policy advised to protect citizens' rights to job opportunities

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Population policy advised to protect citizens' rights to job opportunities
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Stakeholders are arguing that Tanzania needs a population policy that will protect citizens' rights to social and economic opportunities available in the country especially in employment. Speaking over a phone interview on Tuesday, Humphrey Sanga from ...

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

16 Sep

How marital contracts can protect women's rights in Zanzibar

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How marital contracts can protect women's rights in Zanzibar
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Despite their big contributions in their family matters, women's rights of having a share when their husbands die or get a divorce is difficult to attain due to some weaknesses in Zanzibar laws. Media Women's Association (TAMWA)-Zanzibar, has encouraged ...

 

11 years ago

IPPmedia

09 Mar

LHRC: Set up mechanism to protect women`s rights

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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 ...

 

10 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

13 Apr

Helpage Moves to Magu to Protect Old Women's Rights

Helpage Moves to Magu to Protect Old Women's Rights
AllAfrica.com
HELPAGE International has launched a two-year project with funding from the European Union (EU) to promote and protect older women's rights in Tanzania. This project is going to be implemented in Magu district, Mwanza Region by HelpAge International ...

 

5 years ago

The Citizen Daily

24 Mar

World Animal Protection calls for international ban on Ball python trade

World Animal Protection calls for international ban on Ball python trade  The Citizen Daily

 

10 years ago

BirdLife International

02 Sep

World Migratory Bird Day 2014: Stakeholders Pledge to Protect Lake Natron

BirdLife International
World Migratory Bird Day 2014: Stakeholders Pledge to Protect Lake Natron
BirdLife International
The Government of Tanzania has pledged to accord a higher protection status to the Lesser Flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor) breeding grounds of Lake Natron. This was revealed during the celebration of the World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) 2014 on 28th ...

 

10 years ago

Vijimambo

23 Sep

World Leaders Commit to Intensify Efforts to Realize Women's Health, Rights, Equality

UNITED NATIONS, New York, 22 September 2014—More than 140 presidents, heads of government, ministers and high officials from around the world today reaffirmed their countries’ strong political support to the historic International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).
During the ICPD, held in Cairo in 1994, 179 governments agreed on a 20-year Programme of Action that included a bold new vision of the relationships between population, development and individual well-being. It...

 

10 years ago

Daily News

17 Feb

First Lady to grace World Women's Day

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First Lady to grace World Women's Day
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THE First Lady, Mama Salma Kikwete, is expected to grace the International Women's Day in Dar es Salaam on March 8, this year. Trumark Managing Director, Ms Agnes Mgongo, whose agency organises the event, said in Dar es Salaam on Monday that the ...
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10 years ago

Michuzi

World Elephant Day: Conserve and protect the Elephant from the numerous threats it faces

The world is presently witnessing brutality & annihilation of one of the most charismatic mammals on earth, the African Elephant at a shocking rate in human history. Poaching, habitat loss and other cruelty are alarming. Tanzania being a treasure of elephants in Africa has recently revealed its catastrophe. 
The recent elephant census conducted in the main elephant ecosystems for seven months consecutively from May to November 2014, indicates   a significant decline of current elephant...

 

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