“I Had a Dream to Finish School”

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“Speak English” signs found in secondary schools in Ukerewe, an island on Lake Victoria, and Mwanza, in northwestern Tanzania. Many secondary schools strictly enforce the use of English — a new language for most secondary school students, as Kiswahili is the medium of instruction in primary schools. Many students are not given adequate support to transition from Kiswahili to English, and some reported being punished for not speaking English in class. In 2014, the government adopted a policy to allow the dual use of Swahili and English as languages of instruction in secondary schools.
A snapshot of “Our Cries,” a website and civil society platform launched by Modesta Joseph, a secondary school student at the time, to report widespread abuse against students who travel by bus in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s business capital. © 2015 Our Cries In keeping with the Sustainable Development Goals, the government should focus on expanding access to secondary education, while also guaranteeing a good quality education to all students, ensuring students are empowered, gain skills, and build specialized knowledge to drive Tanzania forward. To ensure all adolescents gain skills, it should take steps to ensure out-of-school adolescents can more easily get into secondary education or quality vocational training. To the greatest extent possible given available resources, and with financial support from its development partners, the government should speed up construction and renovation of secondary schools and ensure a good quality of education by placing sufficient numbers of qualified teachers in schools, and increasing learning materials for all students. The government should also use this momentum to urgently review existing policies which conflict with its obligation to guarantee the right to secondary education, free from discrimination and all forms of violence. Tanzania should take specific steps to protect the rights of girls and the rights of students with disabilities, ensuring their inclusion in secondary schools. The government should immediately adopt regulations to stop mandatory pregnancy testing of girls and allow pregnant or married girls to continue their education. It should unequivocally ban corporal punishment, and ensure students are safe from sexual harassment and abuse in schools. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | FEBRUARY 2017 17
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Page 21 and 22: teachers. Many also face sexual exp
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If they [girls] come from far away,
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Difficult Return to School After Pr
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Sexual Exploitation and Harassment
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schools, exacerbated by impunity an
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teenage pregnancy. 250 The governme
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Lack of Adequate Sanitation Facilit
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Female students reported multiple c
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According to Theresa, 19: They didn
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VI. Barriers Faced by Students with
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education at the Ministry of Educat
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Oscar, 18, mentioned previously, ha
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VII. Lack of Quality Education in S
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to fill the gap in secondary school
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teacher to help. The school has no
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Some students reported being punish
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VIII. Lack of Adequate Educational
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Many vocational training schools ar
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• Immediately change existing pol
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• Immediately end pregnancy testi
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• Ensure students with disabiliti
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Urge the Government of Tanzania to
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Msigallah and Gisela Berger of CCRB
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