President yet to ink capital punishment for PwA killers

IPPmedia
President yet to ink capital punishment for PwA killers
IPPmedia
The National Assembly has been informed yesterday the President Jakaya Kikwete is yet to ink for the capital punishment of people with albinism (PwA) killers who were sentenced to death by the court. The Deputy Minister for Home Affair Pereila Silima told ...

IPPmedia

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

IPPmedia

03 Aug

Govt suggests common front on PwA killers

Govt suggests common front on PwA killers
IPPmedia
The government has suggested recruitment of traditional healers, people with albinism, journalists, police officers and doctors into building common front to fight the albino killers. Acting Commissioner for Social Welfare, Rabikira Mushi made the call ...

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

13 May

Scale up campaigns against PwA killers, religious leaders implored

IPPmedia
Scale up campaigns against PwA killers, religious leaders implored
IPPmedia
The government has tasked the Commission for Human Rights and Good governance (CHRGG) and religious leaders to scale-up awareness campaigns against the killings of people with albinism. At least 43 persons with albinism have been killed in the ...
Lake Zone for public education on albino killingsDaily News

all 3

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

25 Feb

Activists want PwA killers secret ballot made public

Activists want PwA killers secret ballot made public
IPPmedia
A committee for coordinating the fight against torture and killings of People with Albinism (PwA) has given the government 14 days ultimatum to announce the results of a secret ballot held in 2010 that was meant to identify perpetrators involved in PwA killings.

 

11 years ago

IPPmedia

02 Apr

CA urged to remove capital punishment

IPPmedia
CA urged to remove capital punishment
IPPmedia
Anti-Death penalty campaigners are urging members of the Constituent Assembly not to incorporate Article 72 (1) K that empowers the President to endorse Death Penalties which they say suppresses the fundamental human right, the Right to Life.

 

10 years ago

BBC

Burundi president returns to capital

Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza returns to the capital Bujumbura following a failed coup attempt, and is expected to address the nation.

 

10 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: Burundi president returns to capital

Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza returns to the capital Bujumbura, following Wednesday's failed coup attempt.

 

11 years ago

Humiliating Experience To Teachers, Children

30 Jan

Corporal Punishment

Corporal Punishment - Humiliating Experience to Teachers, Children
AllAfrica.com
Four years ago, the Tanzania Teachers' Union had threatened to hold a demonstration against the government after a former Kagera District Commissioner ordered the caning of 19 primary school teachers in the presence of their pupils. "The caning of our ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

02 May

We need a new approach to crime and punishment

A report compiled by the Inmate Rehabilitation and Welfare Services Tanzania that calls for reforms in the Prisons Department should give the government food for thought.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Dec

TZ urged to ban corporal punishment of minors

Tanzania has been urged to ban corporal punishment in schools and mitigate any child abuse through the practice.

 

Share