Zanzibar due to go orange for campaign for combating violence against women ...

Zanzibar due to go orange for campaign for combating violence against women ...
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At least 40 drivers of commuter buses and taxis in Zanzibar are on Saturday expected to join the UN Secretary General's UNiTE Campaign to End Violence against Women. Known as the Orange day, the unique UNiTE campaign will involve daladala and taxi ...

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Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

24 Jul

Campaign Begins in Zanzibar As Tool to Fight Gender Violence

Campaign Begins in Zanzibar As Tool to Fight Gender Violence
AllAfrica.com
AN upsetting story happened recently about partners who gave away an infant because they did not want to raise the kid born outside marriage. A man, father of the baby, from Dodoma and a Zanzibari lady, fell into love and unexpectedly had pregnancy!

 

10 years ago

Independent Online

27 May

Zanzibar fights violence against women

Independent Online
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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10 years ago

Dewji Blog

25 May

Orange launches the 2015 Orange African Social Venture Prize

This initiative aims to encourage innovative start-up projects which help to accelerate development on the African continent

 Orange (http://www.orange.com) is launching the call for applications for the 5th edition of the Orange African Social Venture Prize. This initiative aims to encourage innovative start-up projects which help to accelerate development on the African continent.

The prize will recognize three projects with grants of 10,000, 15,000 and 25,000 euros, along with six months...

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

13 Feb

Mwanza on sensitisation campaign to protect children against violence

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Mwanza on sensitisation campaign to protect children against violence
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A sensitisation campaign to protect children against violence has been launched in by a multi-faceted cooperation team in Mwanza. The team includes social welfare officers, civil society organisations, child protection teams from the Mwanza municipal ...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

24 Nov

Violence against women on the rise in Dodoma

About 33 per cent of women in Dodoma have experienced serious physical and psychological abuses and the figure has shown steady increase over the last 12 months, The Citizen can reveal.

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

15 Dec

'Only legal empowerment will end violence against women'

'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 ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 May

Project to free women from violence launched

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.

 

5 years ago

BBC

05 Jun

#WeAreTired: Nigerian women speak out over wave of violence

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

 

5 years ago

BBC

19 Jun

South Africa’s battle to protect women against violence

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

 

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