The issue of human rights in Tanzania, a nation with a 2012 population of 44,928,923, is complex. In its 2013 Freedom in the World report, Freedom House...

Act, 1998) of Human rights in Tanzania provides as follows: Section 138A. Acts of gross indecency between persons. Any person who, in public or private...

(Report). The People's Decade of Human Rights Education. January 1999. "TANZANIA: Prostitutes work the graveyard shift in Dar es Salaam". IRIN. 28 July 2011...

A human rights commission, also known as a human relations commission, is a body set up to investigate, promote or protect human rights. The term may...

unity also made it difficult at times to investigate human rights abuses. Tanzania is the only country in East Africa that has not experienced continuous cycles...

Tanzania ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol in May 2006. In 2008 the Government of Tanzania did not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination...

2017 Tanzania, US Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public...

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world. The Council...

of Tanzania – once again putting them ahead of most other nations in, at least, the displayed pursuit of female empowerment. Human rights in Tanzania "Human...

provisions of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (also known as the Banjul Charter). Seated in Arusha, Tanzania, it is the judicial arm of the...

Human rights in Egypt are guaranteed by the Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt under the various articles of Chapter 3. The country is also a...

Sudan's human rights record has been widely condemned. Some human rights organizations have documented a variety of abuses and atrocities carried out by...

Human rights in Nigeria are protected under the current constitution of 1999. While Nigeria has made major improvements in human rights under this constitution...

Human rights in Uganda have trended for the past decades towards increasing harassment of the opposition, cracking down on NGOs which work on election...

Abortion is illegal in Tanzania except to preserve the life of the mother. Under the Tanzanian penal code, health practitioners who perform illegal abortions...

Human rights in South Africa are protected under the constitution. The 1998 Human Rights report by Myles Nadioo noted that the government generally respected...

Human rights in Guinea, a nation of approximately 10,069,000 people in West Africa, are a contentious issue. In its 2012 Freedom in the World report,...

Contributing to the establishment of human rights system in Africa are the United Nations, international law and the African Union which have positively...

General elections are due to be held in Tanzania in 2025. The President of Tanzania is elected by plurality voting; the candidate who receives the most...

Human rights in Eritrea are viewed, as of the 2020s, by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) such as Human Rights Watch as among the worst in the world...

The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (also known as the Banjul Charter) is an international human rights instrument that is intended to promote...

Human rights are "rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled". Proponents of the concept usually assert that everyone is endowed with certain...

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Human rights in Lesotho, a nation of 2,067,000 people completely surrounded by South Africa, is a contentious issue. In its 2012 Freedom in the World...

Africa's Communal Land Rights Act. Tanzania Japhet, Kirilo. 1967. The Meru Land Case. Peter, Chris Maina. 1997. Human Rights in Tanzania: Selected Cases and...

Human rights in Rwanda have been violated on a grand scale. The greatest violation is the Rwandan genocide of Tutsi in 1994. The post-genocide government...

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violations of human rights in Zimbabwe under the regime of Robert Mugabe and his party, ZANU-PF, between 1980 and 2017. According to human rights organisations...

Human rights in Somalia throughout the late 20th-century and early 21st-century were considered dire, but have gradually improved over the following years...

African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights to form the African Court of Justice and Human Rights (ACJHR) which is located in Arusha. Tanzania ratified and...