Tanzania

US Government Reports

U.S. Department of State	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 Country Reports on Terrorism - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 Trafficking in Persons Report - 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Violating Rights – Enforcing the World’s Blasphemy Laws – Criminal Blasphemy Laws as of 2020 - Dec. 2020 International Religious Freedom Report - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)	Respecting Rights? Measuring the World’s Blasphemy Laws – July 2017
U.S. Department of Labor	Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009
CIA	Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
Congressional Research Service (CRS)	U.S. Assistance for Sub-Saharan Africa: An Overview - Aug.2022 Recent Governance Trends and 2020 Elections In Brief - Oct. 2020 African Elections in 2020 Current Issues and U.S. Policy - Oct. 2017
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)	Tanzania: Democratic Party Of Tanzania (DP)/Government Treatment Of DP Members Or Political Opponents/Sungusungu - Apr. 1998

Foreign Government Reports

Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)

TZA106150.FE - Tanzania: Treatment of sexual minorities by society and the authorities, including legislation, state protection available and support services; the laws criminalizing same-sex unions in Zanzibar, including whether there is any confusion among the authorities regarding the applicable legislative provisions - Sept. 2018
ZZZ105753.E - Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda: Ability to travel from Burundi to neighbouring countries, including obstacles and resettlement - Mar. 2017

Non-Government Organization Reports

Amnesty International	We are facing extinction: Escalating anti-LGBTI sentiment, the weaponization of law and their human rights implications in select African countries - Jan. 2024 Tanzania: Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Agenda Item 6(x): Activity Report of the Chairperson of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa - Oct. 2023 “We Have Lost Everything" Forced Evictions Of The Maasai In Loliodo - June 2023 Amnesty International Report 2022/23: The state of the world’s human rights - Mar. 2023 An 8-point Human Rights Agenda for Change - May 2021 Tanzania: A chance to prioritize human rights - Amnesty International submission for the UN Universal Periodic Review, 39th session of the UPR Working Group, November 2021- Mar. 2021 East Africa: Pushback Practices and their Impact on the Human Rights of Migrants and Refugees - Feb. 2021 The State of African Regional Human Rights Bodies and Mechanisms 2019-2020 - Oct. 2020 Lawfare: Repression by Law ahead of Tanzania's General Elections – Oct. 2020 The price we pay: Targeted for dissent by the Tanzanian State - Oct. 2019
BBC	Timeline
Country Maps	University of Texas at Austin - Map Collection
Election World	Recent Elections
Freedom House	Freedom in the World - 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
Human Rights Watch	World Report Events of: 2023, 2021 “If We Don’t Get Services, We Will Die” Tanzania’s Anti-LGBT Crackdown and the Right to Health – Feb. 2020 “As Long as I am Quiet, I am Safe” - Threats to Independent Media and Civil Society in Tanzania - Oct. 2019 “Working Like a Robot” Abuse of Tanzanian Domestic Workers in Oman and the United Arab Emirates - Nov. 2017 "I Had a Dream to Finish School" Barriers to Secondary Education in Tanzania - Feb. 2017 “No Way Out” Child Marriage and Human Rights Abuses in Tanzania – Oct. 2014 Toxic Toil - Child Labor and Mercury Exposure in Tanzania’s Small-Scale Gold Mines – Aug. 2013 “Treat Us Like Human Beings” Discrimination against Sex Workers, Sexual and Gender Minorities, and People Who Use Drugs in Tanzania – June 2013 "The Bullets Were Raining": The January 2001 Attack on Peaceful Demonstrators in Zanzibar - April 2002 Seeking Protection: Addressing Sexual and Domestic Violence in Tanzania's Refugee Camps - Oct. 2002
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre	Africa Report on Internal Displacement - 2019
International Crisis Group	Al-Shabaab Five Years after Westgate: Still a Menace in East Africa - Sept. 2018
Minority Rights Groups International	Minority and Indigenous Trends 2020: For People With Albinism, Hate Speech And Discrimination Have Moved Online - Oct. 2020
Norwegian Refugee Council	Final Research Report - NRC's Never Too Late to Learn Programme in Tanzania and the DRC - Feb. 2023

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Updated April 25, 2024