Tanzania’s Policy Change Will Allow Pregnant Schoolgirls to Continue Their Education
Country ends discriminatory policy that barred pregnant girls and adolescent mothers from school–days after a case challenging the policy was argued at the ACERWC.
Country ends discriminatory policy that barred pregnant girls and adolescent mothers from school–days after a case challenging the policy was argued at the ACERWC.
11.25.2021 – PRESS STATEMENT: The Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC), Tanzania, and the Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) is pleased to learn that the United Republic of Tanzania has finally ended the oppressive and grossly discriminatory school policy barring pregnant schoolgirls and adolescent mothers from continuing with their formal education. The public declaration […]
The Center’s case seeks to protect the right of Tanzanian girls to continue their education and pursue opportunities during and after pregnancy.
DAR-ES-SALAAM, Tanzania: Nov 22, 2021: Today, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) convenes to hear a complaint filed by rights organizations against the United Republic of Tanzania for the systematic discrimination of girls within the country’s school system. The Center for Reproductive Rights and the Legal and Human […]
BLANTYRE, 06.24.2021 – (Press Release): The Malawi High Court has reaffirmed the statutory protections for legal abortion under narrow circumstances. In its ruling, the court reiterated that despite the existing legal restrictions on access to safe and legal abortion under sections 149, 150, and 151 of the Penal Code, section 243 makes exception when the […]
High Court of Malawi Clarifies Law on Abortion (Updated 06.28.2021) On June 15 2021, the Malawi High Court reaffirmed the statutory protections for legal abortion. In its ruling, the court reiterated that despite the existing legal restrictions on access to safe and legal abortion under the Penal Code, it also makes an exception when the […]
In Africa, several human rights instruments protect the human rights of women and girls including their sexual and reproductive rights. The Center for Reproductive Rights, through multi-faceted advocacy strategies such as thematic and shadow submissions and participation in technical working groups and briefings, works to ensure that the regional and sub-regional human rights mechanisms affirm State […]
The Center for Reproductive Rights secured a win in two landmark cases that sought to hold the government of Kenya accountable for the detention, disrespect and abuse of women seeking maternal health services in public health care facilities. In 2015, the High Court of Kenya held that the detention of Maimuna and Margaret (petitioners) in Pumwani Maternity Hospital—the […]