Widows’ eviction highlights Tanzania’s discriminatory laws: UN experts

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Widows’ eviction highlights Tanzania’s discriminatory laws: UN experts
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New York, Apr 2 (IBNS): Tanzania should take steps to revise or repeal laws, customs and practices that discriminate against women, a United Nations Committee said on Wednesday after considering the case of two widows who were prevented from ...
UN rights experts urge Tanzania to prevent discrimination against womenJURIST
Widows' eviction highlights need to abolish Tanzania's discriminatory laws, UN...

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

Newsroom America

02 Apr

Widows' Eviction Highlights Need To Abolish Tanzania's Discriminatory Laws

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Widows' Eviction Highlights Need To Abolish Tanzania's Discriminatory Laws
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(Newsroom America) -- Tanzania is being urged to take steps to revise or repeal laws, customs and practices that discriminate against women following the case of two widows who were prevented from inheriting their late husbands' property and were left ...
Widows’ eviction highlights Tanzania’s discriminatory laws: UN expertsindiablooms
UN rights experts urge Tanzania to prevent discrimination...

 

10 years ago

UN News Centre

01 Apr

Widows' eviction highlights need to abolish Tanzania's discriminatory laws, UN ...

UN News Centre
Widows' eviction highlights need to abolish Tanzania's discriminatory laws, UN ...
UN News Centre
Delegates attend a meeting of the Geneva-based Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Photo: Jean-Marc Ferré (file). Print. 1 April 2015 – Tanzania should take steps to revise or repeal laws, customs and practices that ...
Widows' eviction highlights need to abolish or amend Tanzania's discriminatory ...StarAfrica.com

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10 years ago

Vijimambo

29 Apr

To reap benefits from gas, Tanzania needs favourable policies, laws and legal experts.

Former Deputy Minister of Energy and Minerals and Director of Tanzania Oxygen, Lawrence Masha.With abundant gas reserves Tanzania requires suitable policies, laws, right skills and legal expertise to manage contracts for successful participation in the gas economy and the common man to benefit.
This is the view of stakeholders who also felt that without right skills and legal expertise the country is likely to be unsuccessful in exploiting the sector’s potentials. They said it will thus fail...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Jun

Highlights of tax laws and the rights of tax payers

It is common for most taxpayers to pay taxes without necessarily understanding or asking the legal basis for the tax demanded and whether they have any right in the process.

 

11 years ago

Through Knitting

07 Sep

I'm helping widows in Tanzania have a better life

I'm helping widows in Tanzania have a better life - through knitting
Bournemouth Echo
“I thought it would be really depressing, but it was the best travelling I've ever done.” Celina Comninos has enjoyed several stints of globe-trotting, but it was a trip to Tanzania five years ago which changed her life. She stayed with the family of the man who set ...

 

10 years ago

Aljazeera.Com

23 Nov

Tanzania's Maasai prefer death to eviction

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Tanzania's Maasai prefer death to eviction
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It's a familiar story, starring African land and outsized corporate appetites. It begins in 1992, when the Tanzanian government licensed Ortelo Business Corporation (OBC) - owned by a senior official of the United Arab Emirates government - to organise ...
Maasai to Lose Ancestral Land to Trophy Hunting ParkCare2.com

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10 years ago

DAWN.Com

19 Nov

Tanzania's Maasai face eviction threat

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Tanzania's Maasai face eviction threat
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DAR SALAAM: Tanzania will evict thousands of members of the Maasai community from their traditional lands if it goes ahead with plans to create a hunting park, campaigners claimed on Tuesday. Global activist group Avaaz alleged Tanzania had ambitions ...
Tanzania Is Uprooting 40000 People For the Most Despicable ReasonMic
Tanzania Is Evicting the Maasai So Dubai's Royal Family Can Hunt Elephants ...RYOT
Tanzania threat to evict 40 000 for...

 

10 years ago

Www.Worldbulletin.Net

22 Nov

Tanzania's Masai face eviction for Dubai royals' hunt

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Tanzania's Masai face eviction for Dubai royals' hunt
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Authorities in Tanzania have ordered the eviction of 40,000 Masai people so their ancestral home can be turned into a hunting ground for Dubai royals. World Bulletin/News Desk. Masai people living in northern Tanzania are facing eviction from their historical ...
Tanzania selling off land belonging to Masai tribe to Dubai royal family to use it ...Daily News & Analysis

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10 years ago

RT

17 Nov

Royal hunting reserve: Tanzania's Masai to face eviction from homeland

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Royal hunting reserve: Tanzania's Masai to face eviction from homeland
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Masai people living in northern Tanzania are facing eviction from their historical homeland, as the government has reportedly reneged on a promise and is proceeding with plans to remake the land into a hunting reserve for Dubai's royal family. There are ...
Tanzania accused of backtracking over sale of Masai's ancestral landThe Guardian

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