22
Right to Development in the
African Charter on Human and
People’s Rights (1981) Including
the Protocol on the Right of
Women in Africa
27 June 1981,
31 May 1982
URT
Constitution
Article 6
through 32
18 February
1984
Poverty, unemployment and inequality
23
AU, Ouagadougou Declaration
and Plan of Action on
Employment and Poverty
Alleviation (September 8-9, 2004
Ouagadougou, Burkinafaso)
24
African Youth Charter (2006,
Banjul, Gambia)
Employment
Policy
9 Sept. 2004
2 July 2006
25
26
27
28
29
AU Protocol To The African
Charter On Human And People’s
Rights on The Rights of Women
In Africa (2003, Maputo,
Mozambique)
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress
and Punish Trafficking in
Persons, especially Women and
Children, Supplementing the UN
Convention against Transitional
Organised Crime (2000,
Parlemo, Italy)
UNO Declaration on the Rights
of Disabled Persons (1975, New
York, USA)
Employment
and Labour
Relations Act
8 August
2009
Youth
Development
Policy
13 Nov 2008
(Tanzania)
11 July 2003
25
November
2005
July 2010
15 Nov. 2001
13 Dec. 2000
(Tanzania)
25 Dec.
2003
National
Policy on
Disability,
2004
9 December
1975
Progress towards gender equality, particularly equal access to education for girls at all levels
2
20 Nov. 1989
September
UNO Convention on the Rights of
1990
The Child (1989, New York USA)
1 June 1990
(Tanzania)
AU Solemn Declaration on
Gender Equality In Africa (2004,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
8 July 2004
8 July 2004
Law of the
Child , 2009
2004
Note: NA=Not Available
II.
Findings of the CRM
863.
The CRM notes with satisfaction that Tanzania recognises the need for international codes and standards and
it is clear from discussion with the stakeholders that Government has made significant progress towards the
ratification and subsequent implementation of a number of these codes. However, the CRM observes that in
some cases, the dates when certain international instruments were ratified are not provided and it is also not
clear why the country was unable to ratify or domesticate the remaining conventions and treaties. In addition,
there is inadequate awareness of some standards attributable, essentially, to the fact that all the codes and
standards are not yet translated into Kiswahili.
864.
A number of standards and codes are in the process of being translated and domesticated into local laws. As
stated in the CSAR, Tanzania follows the dual system, meaning international treaties must be incorporated into
domestic laws by either amending existing laws or enacting new legislation so as to give force of law to such
treaties. This is provided for under the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania (Article 63 (3) (e). However,
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