TANZANIA
Seeking
Protection": Addressing Sexual and Domestic Violence in Tanzania's Refugee
Camps
Burundian refugee women confront daily
violence in Tanzanian refugee camps, Human Rights Watch charges in a new
report released today. Wide-spread sexual and domestic abuse have left
many of these women physically battered, psychologically traumatized, and
fearful for their lives. Although the office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (unhcr) has taken significant steps to address
this violence, the international monitoring organization states that
the measures are insufficient. The 151-page report, "Seeking Protection:
Addressing Sexual and Domestic Violence in Tanzania's Refugee Camps,"
documents unhcr's and the Tanzanian host government's failure to address
violence against women refugees in a timely and effective manner,
despite ample evidence that women's lives were in danger in their homes
and in the general camp community.
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Tanzania --
In the Name of Security: Forced Round-Ups of Refugees in Tanzania
Tens of thousands of refugees, some of whom have lived in Tanzania
for more than two decades, have been rounded up by the Tanzanian
army and confined to camps for the past year in the western part
of the country, Human Rights Watch charges in this report.This new
report from Human Rights Watch charges that the Tanzanian army separated
the refugees from their families and stripped them of their belongings
in an indiscriminate response to security risks from outside the
country. With little or no notice, the Tanzanian army swept through
villages close to the Burundian and Rwandan borders, apprehending
thousands of refugees from their homes and sending them to the refugee
camps. This report contains testimonies from Burundian refugees,
many of whom had built homes, farms, and livelihoods in the government-provided
settlements for over two decades, who spoke with regret about their
destroyed communities, empty looted homes, and ruined crops.
(A1104), 7/99, 36pp., $5.00
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