Tanzania bans Middle East job agencies over trafficking fears

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Tanzania bans Middle East job agencies over trafficking fears
BBC News
The Tanzanian government has banned up to 70 employment agencies that send women to countries in the Middle East to be housemaids. It comes after complaints that women who travel from Tanzania to the Middle East for work are being mistreated.
Tanzania suspends quarter of job agencies in crackdown on sex, labour traffickingReuters Africa

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9 years ago

BBC

Tanzania bans 'trafficking' agencies

The Tanzanian government bans up to 70 employment bureaus on allegations that they are involved in human trafficking.

 

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Reuters Africa

20 Aug

Tanzania suspends quarter of job agencies in crackdown on sex, labour trafficking

Tanzania suspends quarter of job agencies in crackdown on sex, labour trafficking
Reuters Africa
DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - T anzania has suspended about a quarter of its recruitment agencies in a bid to crackdown on human trafficking after complaints that girls sent as domestic servants to the Middle East were used as ...

 

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StarAfrica.Com

13 Mar

Human rights: Tanzania; attacks by Da'esh in the Middle East; South Sudan

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StarAfrica.com
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AFKInsider

15 Dec

Tanzania Leading Job Creation In East Africa

East African Business Week
Tanzania Leading Job Creation In East Africa
AFKInsider
Tanzania is apparently ahead of other East African Community (EAC) member states in terms of employment creation. Tanzania has recorded over 18 per cent annual job creation rate ahead of Kenya 17 per cent, Burundi 12 per cent, Uganda 7.3 per cent and ...
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IPPmedia

11 Sep

Action against job agencies timely

IPPmedia
Action against job agencies timely
IPPmedia
Securing a job in Tanzania, as it is in many other countries can sometimes be cumbersome. This applies to new graduates as well as people who were formerly employed but somehow lost their jobs. It is for the purpose of fulfilling this need that a number of ...

 

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AINA

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Forced Exodus: Christians in the Middle East

AINA
Forced Exodus: Christians in the Middle East
AINA
In September, senior clerics from a dozen different Christian denominations all over the Middle East met in Amman, Jordan, for a conference organized by King Abdullah II. The subject was the crisis facing Christianity in the region, and what to do about it.
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