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Supporters of Tanzania's main opposition party Chadema gesture during the party's first political rally after an imposed ban from 2016 was lifted, at Furahisha Grounds in Mwanza, on January 21, 2023. — (MICHAEL JAMSON/AFP via Getty Images)

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Tanzania: End Mass Arrests and Arbitrary Detentions of Political Opposition

August 12, 2024 | Tanzania

Masai child waves to tourists in Tanzania. Ndutu, Tanzania. — (Randy Olson/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Tanzania: Private Business Complicit in Forced Evictions of Maasai Communities by Authorities

August 7, 2024

Masai man, wearing traditional blankets, overlooks Serengeti in Tanzania as the colorful sunset fills the sky. Wild grass in the forground. — (jocrebbin/Getty Images Plus)

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Business as Usual in Bloodied Land? Role of Businesses in Forced Evictions in Loliondo, Tanzania

August 6, 2024

Civilian holds sign that says — AKUOT CHOL/AFP via Getty Images

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Regional human rights bodies struggle to uphold rights amid political headwinds in Africa

October 20, 2020

Congolese firemen begin the disinfecting operation of the state buildings and public spaces in the Gombe district of Kinshasa, on April 12, 2020. – The operations will last for ten days to try to curb the spreading of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Photo by JUNIOR KANNAH / AFP) (Photo by JUNIOR KANNAH/AFP via Getty Images)

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Protect Detainees at Risk of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa, Unclog Prisons and Release Prisoners of Conscience

April 20, 2020 | at-risk detainees

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Tanzania: 10 men arrested in Zanzibar for being ‘gay’

November 6, 2018 | LGBTQ

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‘Dangerous’ plans for homophobic taskforce must be abandoned immediately in Tanzania

November 1, 2018 | LGBTI

Burundian refugees gather along the shoreline of the Tanganyika lake in the fishing village of Kagunga, on May 21, 2015. UNHCR is transporting approximately 2000 refugees per day to a transit camp at the stadium in Kigoma. Over 110,000 Burundians have become refugees since unrest erupted in their country in April, according to the UN refugee agency, and 70,000 of them have gone to Tanzania. AFP PHOTO/DANIEL HAYDUK (Photo credit should read Daniel Hayduk/AFP/Getty Images)

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Conform or flee: Repression and insecurity pushing Burundians into exile

September 28, 2017 | Burundi

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Amnesty International’s Annual State of the World Report Slams Governments, Including the U.S., for Global Assault on Freedoms

February 22, 2016 | Child Marriage

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Your rights in jeopardy, global assault on freedoms, warns Amnesty International

February 18, 2016 | Child Marriage

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Amnesty International State of the World 2015-2016

February 18, 2016 | Annual Report

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State of the World 2014/2015

February 25, 2015