Women’s rights: there is more beyond the law

The theme of this year’s International Woman’s Day is Inspiring Change. It calls for a challenge to the status quo and encourages us to give thought to gender inequality.

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

Daily News

20 May

Law for elders' rights coming soon

Law for elders' rights coming soon
Daily News
THE government is expecting to table in Parliament in the next financial year a bill for a law governing elders' rights, it was said here. Deputy Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (Regional Administration and Local Government),Mr Kassim Majaliwa ...

 

9 years ago

IPPmedia

24 Dec

PwAs want specific law to protect their rights

PwAs want specific law to protect their rights
IPPmedia
People with Albinism (PwA) are calling upon the fifth phase government to enact a specific law and policy that will address the needs and rights of the group. Speaking yesterday in Dar es Salaam during a joint press conference organised by Tanzania ...

 

10 years ago

Daily News

23 Sep

CA to dwell on women's legal rights

Daily News
CA to dwell on women's legal rights
Daily News
THE right for women to inherit land and fifty-fifty men/ women representation in all decision-making authorities are some of the most contentious issues prioritised in the Draft Constitution to be presented on Wednesday. Speaking here yesterday, a Constituent ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Sep

Katiba: Women for equal rights

Women have reiterated their quest for 50:50 representation in all decision-making bodies, insisting that the new Constitution should state clearly about equal rights between men and women.

 

10 years ago

EJ Insight

11 Aug

Women's rights and customary wrongs

EJ Insight
Women's rights and customary wrongs
EJ Insight
A UN panel has ruled that Tanzania had violated its international human rights obligations to protect the right of women to own, manage, enjoy and dispose of property. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. HomeWorldInternational · Tzili Mor - Aug 11, 2015 9:41am ...

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

09 Mar

Women advocate more platforms on their rights

Women advocate more platforms on their rights
IPPmedia
More efforts are needed to ensure that women have a greater platform than now to be heard, defend their interests and similar economic opportunities as men. This was said in Dar es Salaam yesterday by the Minister of Information, Culture and Sports, ...

 

11 years ago

Legal Aid Centre

21 Jul

Old laws undermining women and children rights

IPPmedia
Old laws undermining women and children rights - Legal Aid Centre
IPPmedia
Outdated laws and the snail paced approach to their review are once again cited as the major factor undermining the rights of vulnerable groups in the country these including women and children and the elderly and disabled. More specifically is the question ...

 

9 years ago

Daily Mail

25 Aug

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 ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Dec

LOCAL FEATURE: Fresh impetus to women’s rights

>Inadequate reproductive health laws, regulations and policies are a problem to any country, but if they are well stated and put in practice, there will be transformation in health leading to national development.

 

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