Why women in Kinondoni want gender violence mentioned in the constitution

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Why women in Kinondoni want gender violence mentioned in the constitution
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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 ...

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

28 Nov

'Stop All Forms of Violence Against Women', Gender Minister

Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
'Stop All Forms of Violence Against Women', Gender Minister
AllAfrica.com
Monrovia — Liberia's Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Julia Duncan Cassell has alarmed that in the wake of the Ebola epidemic which is an emergency health and development issue, women and children are still being violated. "Different ...
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16 days of activism against gender-based violence beginsGhana Broadcasting Corporation
Free State police campaign...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Nov

INSIGHT: Gender equity needed to mitigate gender violence

>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.

 

11 years ago

Daily News

20 Feb

Gender violence must be halted

Daily News
Gender violence must be halted
Daily News
A RESEARCH carried out by the Tanzania Media Women Association (Tamwa) has shown that gender violence is perpetrated notoriously in most Zanzibar Districts. The human rights abuses include rape, underage pregnancies and wife bashing. Incredibly ...
Nghidinwa Admits Govt Failed On ViolenceAllAfrica.com

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10 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Feb

Stopping gender violence

Rahima* is a girl who has had a harrowing experience of being raped. Some two years ago, Rahima was raped at her parents’ house by a neighbour.

 

10 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

29 Sep

'New Constitution Honours Gender Equality'

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'New Constitution Honours Gender Equality'
AllAfrica.com
THERE is jubilation among women in different regions, after the Draft constitution decided to include a section that gives women the power to own and inherit land, just like their male counterparts. Women activists associations are among the groups which ...
Final draft commended for upholding women's rightsIPPmedia

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11 years ago

Daily News

19 Feb

Gender based violence report out

Daily News
Gender based violence report out
Daily News
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 ...

 

11 years ago

Daily News

18 Jan

Gender violence on the rise in Zanzibar

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, ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Apr

Gender Based Violence still rampant in TZ

>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.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

25 Nov

EDITORIAL: Big ‘no’ to gender violence

>As the world marks International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we need to look at our situation in Tanzania where, according to a  survey carried out last year, 10 per cent of women aged 15 to 49 reported that their first sexual experience was forced on them. That is rape!

 

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