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

Call for Action
Broad areas
have birth
certificate are
very few. 97% of
children of
Tanzania outside
urban setting are
not registered
(Right for
recognition)
Children without
proper parental
care and guidance
lack support and
their being denied
food, clothing
shelter, and love,
(Same, Ruangwa,
Kagera, Mara and
Dodoma).
Malnutrition is the
cause for infant
mortality. (Case of
Hai-Kilimanjaro,
Singida, and
Ruangwa)
The right to Child
protection.
In respect to child
abuse, violence,
emotional, sexual
is a serious
problem in
Tanzania, which
is contrary to
CRS (art. 5, 9,
19, 20 and 37)
Protection (art.
5, 9, 19, 20 and
37)
Protection (art.
5, 9, 19, 20 and
37)
Participation
(art. 12, 18, 23)
Main child rights
violated
Right to provision of
basic needs like food,
shelter, clothing,
sanitation,
(Rights to life and
survival)
Children lack of
protection because of
lack of parental or living
alone on the street, or
conflicts at family level,
or poverty, or child
labour, all these subject
children to abuse without
protection.
Detention of children
Putting children under
remand home
Bullying children &
teasing
Separation of children
from parents
Female genital
mutilation (Right for
enjoyment)
Right to play
Rights for skills
development
Right for involvement in
matter concerning their
future and life
Right to be heard or
listened
Describe risks & problems
children are facing
A child without parental
care, case of Dodoma-
Mnadani
Children staying with
relatives/grandparents/
child headed household/
homeless/ abandoned
stands to be abused
without any protection
Homeless/ poverty Defence
right, lack of knowing their
legal right. Ignorance,
humiliations, discrimination,
Child labour
Long working hours
Corporal punishment
Torture
Maltreatment
Verbal abuse and insult
Stunting growth
No enjoyment
Operation or cuttings
Torture
Maltreatment
Evacuation of some human
organs
Never get chance to
participate in decision
making in their family,
parents responsibilities,
Keeping children in hidden
environment because of
disability or Solitary
Lack of freedom of
Causes for child rights
violations
Rukwa, and Dodoma.
Lack of awareness on the
importance of registration
among families particular in
rural areas and among
illiterate families, e.g.
pastoralist communities in
Manyara, Arusha and Iraqw
- Singida
Poverty, family separation,
HIV pandemic and low level
of understanding on human
right
Death of parents,
separation, poverty, lack of
proper guidance and care
because of negligence, lack
of proper National system
to care for children
Death of parents,
separation, poverty, lack of
proper guidance and care
because of negligence, lack
of proper National system
to care for children, culture,
authoritarian parents, child
ignorance to speak about
their rights themselves, low
level of understanding
because of HIV/AIDS,
cultural problem,
inadequate protection to
children with HIV/AIDS
Harmful traditional
practices/cultural norms
e.g. Kondoa, Dodoma,
Mara, Arusha, Kilimanjaro,
Singida. Subject children to
such suffering
limits of opportunity to
participate, condemned by
poverty to engage in
income generation
Failure to recognise the
interest of the child
Denied opportunity to
demonstrate own believes
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