Another Victory For the LGBTIQ Community in Africa as the Botswana High Court has unanimously overturned a colonial-era law criminalizing same-sex relations, on 11th June,2019, ruling it to be discriminatory, unconstitutional and against public interests
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This #IAAD, we acknowledge the epic strides that have been made in de-mystifying albinism in the public forum globally. While there remains more to be done, we see the difference and many of us are benefiting from the great awareness being raised.
#iaad2019#stillstandingstrong
On this year's world environmental day , 5th May, Men and Women in Britain have gone on a birth strike, refusing to have biological children due to the alarming rate of climatic change
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#EnvironmentDay
Waumini wa dini ya kiislamu wakiwa wamefurika kwenye Viwanja wa Mnazi Mmoja jijini Dar es Salaam kwa ajili ya kushiriki Swala ya Eid el-Fitr, leo ambapo Sheikh Mkuu wa Mkoa wa Dar es Salaam, Alhad Mussa Salum aliongoza swala hiyo.
#EidMubarak@WateteziTv_Int@THRDCOALITION
On 28th May, the United Kingdom’s national human rights institution launched a formal investigation into anti-Semitism within the Labour Party, whether the party has unlawfully discriminated against, harassed, or victimized people because they are Jewish
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On May 14, the Dutch Senate adopted the CHILD LABOUR DUE DILIGENCE law that obliges companies to find out whether their goods have been produced using child labor and come up with a plan to prevent child labor in its supply chain if they find it.
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While for most of the world Eid al-Fitr celebrations started today, Sheikh Abubakar Zubeir has announced that Eid in Tanzania will be tomorrow, 5th June 2019, after sighting of the crescent moon, and the main prayer will be held at the mosque in Ngamiani, Tanga.
THRDC along with its representative, Adv Leoplod Mosha, is honored to participate in a discussion on Civic Space and the Role of Civil Society Organizations in Tanzania, organised by Belgium Embassy in Tanzania
A French court has sentenced an imam to two years in prison for arranging several migrants crossings from northern France to England.
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The Human Rights Watch has reported a series of Russia-Syria joint military operation's inhumane attacks, using internationally banned and other indiscriminate weapons (large air dropped explosive weapons), in unlawful attacks on civilians in northwest Syria in recent weeks
@hrw
As of 1st June, 2019, Tanzania became the 34th country in Africa to impose the plastic bags ban according to the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP). Anyone caught importing, manufacturing or using a plastic bag will face a fine of Tsh 30,000/=
@SuluhuSamia
UN High Commissioner for Refugees has reported evacuating 149 refugees and asylum-seekers from dire conditions in Tripoli, Libya, to a safe haven, Italy.
The evacuees included 65 children, 13 being infants. Most of them from Somalia, Eritrea, Sudan and Ethiopia
@Refugees
Uganda has banned the consumption and sale of alcohol in sachets, which officials say threaten public health.
Drinks manufacturers in the country are now required to package liquor in bottles of not less than 200ml
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Tanzanian President John Magufuli has announced that his country will export 700,000tonnes of maize to Zimbwabwe, explaining that Tanzania had surplus after harvesting 16m tonnes when only 13m tonnes were necessary. UN says 15m people in Zimbabwe face food insecurity
@innobash
34 out of 54 members of the Illinois Senate have passed a bill that establishes a woman’s “fundamental right” to abortion.
The bill states that “a fertilized egg, embryo or fetus does not have independent rights,” according to the station.