A compilation of extracts from ngo reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child relating to violence against children This document is an annex to the publication
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TANZANIA (United Republic of)Eastern and Southern Africa CRC Session 27, 21 May - 8 June 2001 Harvard University/HakiElimu – English www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.27/Tanzania.pdf […] The highest rates of new infections occur in the 15-24 year group. Several studies have shown that by age 15, about half of all girls and boys have already experienced sex, much of which is unprotected and often coerced (see DHS and TANESA data in kuleana, 1999). […] Recent lessons learned demonstrate that it is difficult for young people to protect themselves from HIV when they are unable to secure their own livelihoods. Young women often report the need to engage in unwanted sex to secure money or other needs, and both sexes often lack the motivation to protect their futures when their future prospects are so bleak. Both children who never went to school and those who have completed primary education are usually unable to secure jobs of any kind, let alone ones that offer reasonable wages […]
Moreover, young people who try to eke out a living on their own through street trading, for instance,are reported to be frequently harassed by the police. […]
However, their strategies to date have failed to have any demonstrable impact in either reducing the need for child domestic work, in creating viable alternatives or in engaging the public to promote safer and better working conditions for children. […]
In terms of the CRC, the continued use of corporal punishment and other forms of humiliation in schools is an especially pressing concern. Several studies10 have proven that throughout the country children are regularly beaten (often for minor or unspecified offenses) with sticks, hands and other implements, thrown against the wall, made to stand in painful body positions in the hot sun and humiliated in manifold other ways. In a few instances, students have died as a result of excessive beating.11 Some studies find that the fear of being beaten leads to lower attendance and in many cases eventual drop out. The continued use of corporal punishment is a clear violation of the CRC and the country’s own Constitution that forbids inhumane and degrading treatment of people. THAILANDEast Asia and Pacific CRC Session 19, 21 September - 9 October 1998 - Focal Point on Sexual Exploitation of Children – English www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.19/Thailand_FocalPoint_ngo_report.pdf […] 
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