I think we
can all agree that the time for complacency is long gone, has passed and
belongs to another era. The silence on violence against women, children, and
people with disabilities has been broken. Now is the time for stronger action.
We have seen violence is done in daylight and everyone is silent because it has
been taken as part of our culture. People hide their love affairs but violence
is done in daylight. It is time for action when up to 70 per cent of women in
some countries face physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime. Nearly 80 albino Tanzanians have been killed since 2000.
Violence is
done in our families, clans, societies and we all see it. Children are not sent
to school to work in our houses, women are beaten with their husbands out in
the streets, people with albinism are robed and their body parts cut off. All
is done in our societies. It is time to
make all those people accountable and we should start with every one of us
identifying them, enforcing the laws on them according to the human rights.
Every human has a right to live as equal as any other according to the
constitution. This is indicated in Tanzanian constitution of 1997, Right to
equality,12-(6)e. ‘No person shall be subjected to torture or inhuman or
degrading punishment or treatment.’