Status of Children in Tanzania - 2012 - Tanzania Education Network ...

Call for Action
Broad areas
Main child rights
violated
Describe risks & problems
children are facing
Causes for child rights
violations
Children held in police
station are not separated
from the adults.
(Developmental right)
Being sodomised and a lot
of other abuse, insult ,
denied food, and lack of
protection
Limited financial resources
to contrast children cells at
each police stations
The right of
children to life,
survival and
development
Birth registration
is the right of
identity and
recognition for
children.
However, in
Tanzania, child
registration is
very low, only
16.3%. In
Tanzania children
who are legally
registered and
Physical punishment
and solitary conferment
are used as disciplinary
measures for children at
prisons. Case of
Karanga, Mbeya, and
Maweni Prisons (right of
protection)
Living condition in
detention centres and
retention homes are very
poor (survival right)
Children deprived
opportunities to go to
school
(Right to life
opportunities)
discrimination and lack
of protection
Right to health care
services Children with
HIV parents are
discriminated,
sometimes
psychological abused,
and neglected
Children with disability
are hidden from public
view, chased away by
other children, forced to
stay alone. (Case of
Mvomero Morogoro was
a boy hidden for 28 year.
Case of Sinza Special
School (Developmental
right)
Right for inheritance
Right for recognition of
children. Causes for this
violation is lack of
awareness among
people to see
registration an important
event for child life, family
also are not committed
and some of them
consider registration as
something unnecessary.
Torture, mistreatment, long
working hours, alienated,
See table 5 below
Congestion, and set
potential for contracting
skin disease
Discrimination, hiding,
denied accessibility to any
life opportunity, parents are
ashamed of their children
disability, being bitten or
forced to eat things which
are rotten, living under dirty
environment
Social exclusion
Stigma and discrimination
Sexual abuse
Under 5 mortality rate in
Tanzania is low 51/1000 in
2010 while immunasation
for polio 94% in 2010 and
92% immmusation aginst
measles, provided with
Insectcide Treated Net to
under 5 cover 64% in 2010.
Social exclusion
Stigma and discrimination
Sexual abuse
Children reared by step
parents are grabbed
everything and become
property less
Children who are not legally
registered cannot access
essential service easily or
cannot claim anything from
their dead parents because
legally they are not
recognised.
Lack of proper knowledge
to handle children who are
in conflict with the law or
contact see table 6
Limited resources to
rehabilitate detention
centres and retentions
homes
Lack of infrastructure to
support disabled children,
lack of inclusive education,
inadequate human
resource with necessary
skills to handle disabled
children
All children were supposed
to have access to all
services in order to ensure
their survival and
development
Lack of the law, which
recognise category of
these children. (Case of
Mara, Singida, Iringa, and
Kagera)
lack of understanding on
the importance of
registering child birth, lack
of information on where to
register children, lack of
understanding that
registering a child is the
right of the child
Most children are not born
in health facility settings
rather use TBAs e.g. Coast
Region, Pwani, Lindi,
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