Tanzania and Zanzibar

June 14, 2016

Dispatches: Millions of Children Are Still Not In School. Why?

“Nasser” wants to be a lawyer.

Children's Rights

June 14, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Millions of Children Are Still Not In School. Why?

Elin Martinez
Researcher, Children's Rights Division
United Nations

Under the customary inheritance laws of many communities in Tanzania, a widow with children inherits nothing from her husband. These laws also deny women the right to inherit clan land or to be administrators of their relatives’ estates.

April 19, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Year after Landmark Case, Widows Still Waiting

Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Researcher, Women's Rights Division
Children's Rights

December 9, 2015 News Release

Africa: Strengthen Steps to End Child Marriage

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October 29, 2014 Video

Child Marriage: Tanzania
September 6, 2013 Video

Tanzania Child Gold Miners

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April 18, 2016 Letter

Letter from Human Rights Watch to the United Republic of Tanzania on Compliance with UN CEDAW Committee Decision
December 9, 2015 Statements

Ending Child Marriage in Africa
September 22, 2015 UPR

Tanzania: UPR Submission 2015
November 10, 2014 Commentary

Keeping All Girls in School is One Way to Curb Child Marriage in Tanzania

Agnes Odhiambo
Senior Researcher, Women's Rights Division

Published In: Inter Press Service
October 29, 2014 News Release

Tanzania: Child Marriage Harms Girls
September 23, 2014 News Release

Mercury Treaty: Seize Chance to Sign at UN Event
September 2, 2014 Letter

Tanzania: Include Specific Provisions Relating to Marriage in the New Constitution
June 12, 2014 Commentary

Time to Get Children Out Of the Hazardous Supply Chain

Jane Buchanan
Associate Director, Europe & Central Asia Division, Children's Rights Division
May 20, 2014 News Release

World Health Assembly: Pledge to Act on Mercury
May 13, 2014 Commentary

Tanzania: Let’s Tackle the Primary School Leaving Exam

Juliane Kippenberg
Associate Director, Children's Rights Division

Published In: Daily News (Tanzania)
March 28, 2014 News Release

Tanzania: Increase Access to Secondary School
March 28, 2014 Letter

Letter by HRW and TCRF to Tanzania Minister of Education

October 29, 2014

No Way Out

Child Marriage and Human Rights Abuses in Tanzania
August 28, 2013

Toxic Toil

Child Labor and Mercury Exposure in Tanzania’s Small-Scale Gold Mines
June 18, 2013

“Treat Us Like Human Beings”

Discrimination against Sex Workers, Sexual and Gender Minorities, and People Who Use Drugs in Tanzania

Daily Brief

June 20, 2016

World Refugee Day; Turkish border guards shoot asylum seekers dead; EU refugee policy & Turkey; refugees helping to nab war criminals; refugee team at Olympics; investigating civilians killed in Aleppo, Syria; sexual violence in Sudan; and the "deadliest year ever" for environmental activists.

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