tanzania: corruption and human rights
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Many African countries including Tanzania have accepted democracy without successfully adopting the institutional reforms to support it such as an accountableand transparent rule of law: A situation which facilitates corruption and human rights abuses.Evarist Chahali, a doctoral student ofpolitical studies and a former Tanzanian Intelligence and State Security Officer will outline the origin, form and extent of corruption in Tanzania and the capacity of theanti-corruption bodies to address it.Sarah Hermitage is a British Lawyer forcedfrom her farm in Tanzania in 2008 after a four-year campaign of violence and abuse facilitated by state institutions. Her husband and staff were arrested andimprisoned, and a close friend almost hacked to death. Sarah will describe how corruption in the police and judiciary is used to systematically deny human rights especially, access to law. She will also argue that thesituation is complicated by donor insistence on strict adherence to core principleTRANSCRIPT
INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES School of Advanced Studies | University of London
Solicitors International Human Rights Group (SIHRG) Society for Advanced Legal Studies (SALS)
Wednesday, 28 May 2014
6.00-7.30pm
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Charles Clore House 17 Russell Square
London WC1B 5DR
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/16174
SIHRG: www.sihrg.org
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Many African countries including Tanzania have accepted democracy without successfully adopting the institutional reforms to support it such as an accountable and transparent rule of law: A situation which facilitates corruption and human rights abuses.
Evarist Chahali, a doctoral student of
political studies and a former Tanzanian Intelligence and State Security Officer will outline the origin, form and extent of corruption in Tanzania and the capacity of the anti-corruption bodies to address it.
Sarah Hermitage is a British Lawyer forced
from her farm in Tanzania in 2008 after a four-year campaign of violence and abuse facilitated by state institutions. Her husband and staff were arrested and imprisoned, and a close friend almost hacked to death.
Sarah will describe how corruption in the police and judiciary is used to systematically deny human rights especially, access to law. She will also argue that the situation is complicated by donor insistence on strict adherence to core principles of democracy in particular, the separation of Powers.
Tanzania: Corruption and Human Rights