Police step up fight against gender-based violence

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 ...

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Gender based violence report out
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TANZANIA Media Women's Association (Tamwa) will today, launch a Gender-Based Violence (GBV) survey report which was conducted in December last year in 20 districts on Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar. A statement released in Dar es Salaam on ...

>It was in the middle of an unforgettable night, when voices of children and a woman crying for help woke me up. Trying to figure out what was happening I realised my neighbour Amon, was beating his wife Ana.

Ignorance fuels gender based violence in Hai
Daily News
IGNORANCE of the law is the main cause of gender based violence escalation in Hai District, a lawyer has said. The Programme Officer (Legal Aid) with Kilimanjaro Women Information Exchange and Consultancy Organisation (KWIECO), Mr Morise Venance, ...

Kagera residents urged to report gender based violence
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KAGERA Regional Police Commander (RPC) George Mayunga has appealed to residents in the region to refrain from taking the law in their own hands. He urged residents including men, to report gender based violence to the nearest police stations for ...

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Laws to curb gender based violence 'poorly implemented', minister told
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WHILE SA has come up with impressive laws and policies to deal with gender based violence, poor implementation has meant that these laws have had far too little effect, say pressure groups. In a memorandum sent to Women Minister Susan Shabangu, the ...
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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.

Campaign Begins in Zanzibar As Tool to Fight Gender Violence
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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!

>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.