Tanzania: Protect Right to Education in Pregnancy, Parenthood

By Human Rights Watch

(Nairobi) – Tanzania’s government has not adopted adequate legal and policy measures needed to protect pregnant girls and adolescent mothers’ right to education and reverse decades of systemic exclusion in schools, Human Rights Watch said today on the International Day of Education. Tanzanian girls remain at high risk of stigma and discrimination in schools if they are pregnant or are mothers. More than three years since the Tanzanian government announced the end of a discriminatory school ban against pregnant students and adolescent mothers, it has not undertaken key legal and policy…

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