Smartphones help Tanzanian women secure land rights

Smartphones help Tanzanian women secure land rights
Daily Mail
ILALASIMBA, Tanzania, Aug 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Y olanda Ngunda has every reason to smile now she holds a title deed recognising her as sole owner of a disputed plot of rugged farmland in Tanzania's remote southern highlands. For the ...

Daily Mail

Habari Zinazoendana

9 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Jan

Hanang pastoralists secure customary rights over land

Pastoralists in Hanang District, Manyara Region who continuously risk losing grazing land due increasing pressure from other users can now smile following an intervention geared towards assisting them acquire customary title deeds.

 

10 years ago

TeleSUR English

11 Oct

Tanzania's Proposed Constitution Guarantees Land Rights for Women

teleSUR English
Tanzania's Proposed Constitution Guarantees Land Rights for Women
teleSUR English
Tanzania's parliament endorsed the proposed constitution last week. The proposal will first go through a referendum. Tanzania's parliament have introduced a new article for the country's constitution that will secure more rights for women. According to Prime ...
A New Constitution For Tanzania Equals New Hope For WomenAFKInsider

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11 years ago

TheCitizen

13 Mar

Women’s land rights today equals a better tomorrow for all Tanzanians

As the world celebrated International Women’s Day at the weekend, we at the newly formed ‘Mama Ardhi Alliance’ reflected on what achievements have been made for and by women here in Tanzania.

 

10 years ago

The Guardian

15 Oct

Women in Tanzania set for equal land rights – let's make sure it happens

The Guardian
Women in Tanzania set for equal land rights – let's make sure it happens
The Guardian
Tanzanian women have until now had to rely on tenuous rights to land to feed themselves and their families. Photograph: Tom Gilks/Alamy. Sponsored by: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Jennifer Duncan and Scholastica Haule. Wednesday 15 October ...

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

08 Dec

'Poor awareness of land laws denying Isles women rights'

'Poor awareness of land laws denying Isles women rights'
IPPmedia
Lack of awareness on land usage and ownership laws and regulations is a major factor denying majority of women in Zanzibar their land rights. The concession was reached by lawyers from Zanzibar's Ministry of Lands, Housing, Water and Energy over the ...

 

9 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: The Tanzanian women who marry women

In the Tarime district of the Mara region in northern Tanzania an age-old tradition involves women marrying women.

 

10 years ago

IRINnews.Org

17 Oct

Tanzania's new citizens to get land, voting rights

Rescue
Tanzania's new citizens to get land, voting rights
IRINnews.org
DAR ES SALAAM, 17 October 2014 (IRIN) - Over 162,000 former Burundian refugees, who were recently granted Tanzanian citizenship after living in the country for over four decades, will now be able to buy and own land and vote, said a senior government ...
200000 refugees from Burundi awarded citizenship in TanzaniaRescue (blog)
Tanzania begins granting citizenship to over 162000 former Burundian refugees ...UNHCR (press...

 

10 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

25 Feb

Registrars Don't Enforce Trademark Rights On Foreign Land

Registrars Don't Enforce Trademark Rights On Foreign Land
AllAfrica.com
Reference is made to the article, "Tanzanian investor to challenge court ruling in trademark dispute" (The New Times, February 23). It is quite possible, indeed even probable, that Bakhresa Group registered the Azania trademark in Rwanda in order to throw a ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

13 Apr

Include indigenous rights in land, wildlife laws: call

>Land and Wildlife legislations are sidelining hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, and other marginalised communities, a lawyer and activist has observed.

 

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