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
Right to participate
expression, thought,
conscience
Lack of opportunity to
express their views and
opinion
Authoritarian parents
Sources: Research findings, 2012
4.2 Critical children rights violated in Tanzania among the target
group
4.2.1 Children without parental care and guidance
Children who are not cared by their actual biological parents are constantly increasing in Tanzania.
This is partly due to HIV/AIDS, which has left many children parentless. The study revealed that the
number of children in this category of care are vulnerable and susceptible to mistreatment, torture,
lack of access to education, exploitation and sometimes working for long hours and live in
permanently unhappy life. Figure 6 which follows shows number of children who have lost their
parents and are kept under foster-ship. Thus vulnerable to sexual, physical and emotional abuse
Figure 6: Children under foster-ship (sampled district)
SOURCE: Research findings 2012
Figure 6 indicates that Iramba and Lushoto are some of the areas where children are surviving
without parents, and oftenly majority become subjected to child labour or child trafficking where
their rights are grosely violated.
4.2.2 Sexual, Physical and Emotional Violence.
The study noted that there is a remarkerble violation of children right particularly sexual abuse,
physical, neglect and deprivation of basic need. Children are deprived suport and care of the family
and sometimes become victims of sexual, physical and emotional violence. Some of them are
beaten particularly in place like Musoma, Kagera, Singida and Zanzibar. As noted in the study
violence like physical abuse is always associated vith verbal insult. Children right violation in this
category is caused by poverty, family breakdown, separation, divorce or neglect. This kind of child
right violation is also evidenced in school where children are subjected to corporal punishment and
sexual abuse by their teachers.Case of Makunduchi Zanzibar. In view of that children lack
protection against abuse from home to shool and viseversa, see figure 8 for more observation
which shows the rate of children abused in 2010 at selected districts. Evidence shows that physical
vioence is extensively practised in Tanzania, at school and at home. Sexual violence is more
severe to girls than boys. Figure 7 which follows shows occurance of sexual, physical and
emotional abuse to the target group of children
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