Violence against women on the rise in Dodoma

Gender violence on the rise in Zanzibar
Daily News
ZANZIBAR'S one-stop-centre at Mnazi-Mmoja Referral Hospital had more than 900 reported cases of gender violence between 2012 and 2013, officers at the centre said. “We had 924 cases of abuse dealt with at the centre. These included defilement, rape, ...

>Rape, early pregnancy and early marriage have risen in Zanzibar at an alarming rate, a new survey has revealed.

>She would be told to fill her mouth with water and keep it there whenever her husband attempted to pick a quarrel with her. The reasoning was that this would prevent her from answering back. She was told that a woman is, at all costs, submissive to her husband. That one of her primary roles as a wife was to cook for her husband and family members, all the time.

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Zanzibar fights violence against women
Independent Online
Zanzibar, Tanzania - Natasha Ali was devastated when she realised the man accused of snatching her 14-year-old daughter off a street in Zanzibar and raping her had been freed for lack of evidence. Her daughter was grabbed as she strolled through an ...
Zanzibar police beef up fight against sexual, physical abuse of womenTODAYonline

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A new project aimed at freeing girls and women from gender-based violence, especially the practice of female genitalmutilation (FGM), has been launched in the district here by the African Medical Research Foundation (Amref), also known as Amref Health Africa.

'Only legal empowerment will end violence against women'
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Legal empowerment is a practical instrument that could halt massive discrimination and violence against women and girls in Tanzania. “Communities must be empowered if we really want to rescue women and girls from massive human rights violation, which ...

Coronavirus has worsened the growing crisis of gender-based violence in the country.

Thousands sign a petition and use the hashtag #WeAreTired to protest against recent rapes and killings.

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Why women in Kinondoni want gender violence mentioned in the constitution
IPPmedia
Recently, women in the country joined their fellows in the world to celebrating the International Women's Day. Women in Kinondoni district used the celebrations platform to insist on the issue of gender based violence (GBV) to be clearly stated in the expected ...