Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the Consolidated 2nd to 10th Periodic Report
of the United Republic of Tanzania
31. Provide the Commission on Human Rights and Good Governance
adequate resources (financial, human and material).
32. Take urgent steps to domesticate the African Charter and other
international human rights instruments that Tanzania has ratified, in
order to give Tanzanians the opportunity to enjoy the full range of rights
guaranteed in these treaties.
33. Establish a permanent independent police oversight body.
34. Transform the Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation into a public
broadcaster to ensure access to the citizens.
35. Amend the Preventive Detention Act to ensure that the power of
preventive detention is vested in the appropriate institution.
36. Speed up the review of the Law of Marriage, and formulate laws to
penalise domestic violence and marital rape.
37. Formulate a definition of indigenous peoples that accommodates
Tanzania’s circumstances and is consistent with the provisions and
principles of the African Charter.
38. Enact a law to criminalise torture and to speed up the ratification of the
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading
Treatment or Punishment.
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