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Uphold the rights of refugee claimants in the United Republic of Tanzania and ensure that those seeking asylum are protected pending status determination, that refugee status is determined in an impartial, fair and timely manner and that any repatriation of refugee claimants is conducted in accordance with the international human rights obligations of the United Republic of Tanzania

Clarify land rights and safeguard indigenous culture, including traditional livelihoods, especially for indigenous peoples, and adopt positive measures to protect them

Continue to combat the phenomena of child, early and forced marriage by amending the relevant legislation accordingly

Amend the Law of Marriage Act from 1971 to set the minimum age of marriage at 18 years for both boys and girls

Take urgent steps to amend legislation to outlaw all forms of child marriage, safeguard women’s rights to sexual and reproductive health and end violence against women and children

Harmonize the regulations regarding the minimum age of marriage and prohibit early and child marriages and unions

Complete the reforms necessary to raise the minimum legal age of marriage for boys and girls to 18 years and sensitize people of the importance of protecting the rights of all children

Amend the Law of Marriage Act (1971) and other legislation to reflect the Court of Appeals decision on the minimum age of marriage

Revise the 1971 Law of Marriage Act to set the minimum age of marriage to 18 years for both girls and boys

Revise the Law of Marriage Act of 1971 to establish the minimum age of marriage at 18 years for both girls and boys with a view to ending child, early and forced marriages

Amend the 1971 Law of Marriage Act to raise the marriage age for girls to 18 years, as ordered by the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2019

Protect children’s rights to access to health and education by abolishing corporal punishment in schools

Undertake further measures to prevent domestic violence and marital rape and ensure that all victims receive necessary assistance

Step up efforts on the legislative front to combat and punish all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls, including domestic violence, and take further measures to eliminate female genital mutilation

Take all necessary measures to combat discrimination and violence against women, including family and domestic violence

Adopt legislative and policy measures to combat all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, including by addressing the issue of child marriage and ensuring access to education for pregnant schoolgirls and young mothers

Continue national efforts to address domestic violence

Take the necessary measures to ensure that pregnant girls have access to education without discrimination, in accordance with national and international human rights obligations

Take measures to eliminate stigma, discrimination and exclusion of pregnant girls and adolescent mothers, including in schools

End its policy of expelling pregnant schoolgirls

Ensure that pregnant girls and young mothers can attend school and take measures against the practice of invasive pregnancy tests without prior consent

Refrain from imposing a ban on pregnant girls and young women attending schools or taking exams

Strengthen HIV-prevention programmes aimed at young people and make efforts to expand their coverage, ensuring that health services and information on the subject are accessible throughout the country

Strengthen the policies and the legal framework to ensure marriage registration to address cases of early child marriage

Affirm its commitment to the principle of non-discrimination, promoting the necessary debates to review the Penal Code as soon as possible with the aim to put an end to the criminalization of consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex

Enable future free, fair and transparent elections by undertaking political and electoral reforms, including the implementation of the recommendations issued in the final report of the European Union election observation mission to the United Republic of Tanzania of 2015

Promote citizens’ ability to choose their government in free and fair periodic elections by reforming election observation and voter education programmes and by preventing political violence

Create and maintain a safe and conducive environment where all political parties and civil society organizations can exercise their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of political participation without fear of reprisal

Guarantee freedom of assembly, association, expression and press freedom for members of all political parties, the media and civil society organizations by, inter alia, reforming the Cybercrimes Act and the Media Act

Ensure that the laws governing the right to freedom of peaceful assembly are fully in line with the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights