To browse Academia. Established in , the LHRC aims to empower citizens through legal education and advocacy, particularly to address human rights violations stemming from governmental policies. The document outlines the LHRC's vision of a just society, core values guiding their operations, and highlights significant human rights issues in Tanzania, particularly in relation to land rights and the legal ignorance among the populace.
In the report depict about the situation of human rights in the country, specifically on civil and political rights, rights of vulnerable groups, social- economic rights as well as adherence of Tanzania under international obligation to principles of human rights.
Human Rights Enforcement Procedure in Tanzania , This article explains key issues and procedure for enforcing human rights in Tanzania. It is of great help to lawyers, human rights activists and the citizen in general. It provides a brief summary of practice and procedure of enforcing human rights in Tanzania under BRADEA only, other mechanisms such as the Judicial Review and hearing of human rights complaints through the Commission of Human Rights and Good Governance have been deferred for separate discussion.
The article also delves on the Bill of Rights and how it was enforced prior to the enactment of the Basic Rights and Duties Enforcement Act BRADEA which laid out procedure to be followed by lawyers, petitioners and courts when dealing with human rights issues.
Interestingly, previously anyone can sue or be sued for violation human rights, but recent BRADEA amendments have shielded certain individuals from human rights cases. It dictates that such law suits be directed to the Attorney General. The evaluation was conducted by a team of independent consultants between December and April Guided by all evaluation criteria including relevancy, effi ciency, effectiveness and sustainability of the interventions and results earned, the evaluation team sampled and consulted individual respondents of whom Chapter ONE 1.
