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Tanzania and Poverty

In Tanzania, poverty is widespread, and society remains traditionalist with respect to gender issues, even though womenÆs rights are protected by law (Tanzania). Violence against women is widespread, and traditional customs that subordinate women remain strong in both urban and rural areas. Women may be punished by their husbands for not bearing children, and wife-beating occurs at all levels of society. Many women are killed by their husbands, and others commit suicide because of the brutality. Women in refugee camps suffer rape and a high degree of sexual abuse.

Women face discriminatory inheritance practices, and ownership of property because the Government and courts make concessions to customary law and Islamic law (Tanzania). Unmarried women under 21 who bear children face jail time under Zanzibar law, and pregnant girls are forced to leave school, even though the law permits them to continue their education. Female genital mutilation is performed is performed at an early age on roughly 20 percent of the countryÆs 130 main ethnic groups. Although the Constitution prohibits discrimination on the basis of nationality, tribe, origin, political affiliation, color, or religion, discrimination based on sex, age, or disability is not specifically prohibited by aw, but is discouraged in official public statements. The government advocates equal rights in the workplace, but does not ensure them, and some districts restrict a womanÆs access to some jobs and hours of employment.

In Tanzania, the provisions of the constitution that demand equality are not respected and so women live in an extraordinarily oppressive environment (Rukwa). AIDS is widespread, and deaths from AIDS are causing labor shortages and inheritance disputes, and creating orphans and widows without the means to support themselves. Female rural inhabitants face evictions, desertion and violence. The law upholds womenÆs rights, but in practice women ...

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