PRESS STATEMENT THE CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CONDEMNS THE MISTREATMENT OF THE INDIGENOUS MAASAI POPULATION IN THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA 13 June 2024 The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, condemns the continued mistreatment of the Maasai indigenous people in the United Republic of Tanzania. [...] Articles 9, 12 and 13 of the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania state the country’s commitment to equality, human dignity, justice and respect for human rights. [...] The treatment of the Maasai people by the Tanzanian authorities is, therefore, a clear violation of the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania in addition to Articles 17 and 25 (1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that is applicable in Tanzania. [...] The absence of national laws recognising Indigenous people leaves them vulnerable to the activities of multinational corporations with the acquiescence of the state. [...] The need to respect and recognise the rights of the Maasai is at this moment emphasised, and the Centre echoes the words of UNESCO World Heritage Director Lazare Eloundou Assomo, who called on the United Republic of Tanzania to “stop the eviction of the Maasai people under the guise of conservation”.
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- PRESS STATEMENT 1
- THE CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CONDEMNS THE MISTREATMENT OF THE INDIGENOUS MAASAI POPULATION IN THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA 1
- The Centre for Human Rights Faculty of Law University of Pretoria condemns the continued 1
- 80000 people being deprived of access to settlement and grazing lands on which their pastoral 1
- The 2022 quest to relocate the Maasai from the Ngorongoro area to Msomola Tanga escalated further 1
- Ngorongoro area. 1
- The Centre associates the Maasai mistreatment with the Tanzania Governments agreements with 1
- Articles 9 12 and 13 of the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania state the countrys 2
- Article 24 guarantees the protection of ones property and deems it unlawful to deprive one of the same 2
- 17 and 25 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that is applicable in Tanzania. It also 2
- General Comment no. 26 2021 by the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights CESCR 2
- While some Maasai people have been forcefully relocated the Centre is aware that those who are 2
- The Centre therefore calls upon President Samia Suluhu Hassan and her government to end this 2
- Eloundou Assomo who called on the United Republic of Tanzania to stop the eviction of the Maasai 2
- The Centre for Human Rights strongly condemns these actions and urgently calls on the government 3
- 1. Ensure the recognition of the Maasai and all other Indigenous people through legislative 3
- 2. Cease police brutality forced evictions and displacement of the Maasai in the Ngorongoro 3
- Conservation Area 3
- 3. Respect protect and promote the rights to life dignity property and human dignity of the Maasai 3
- 4. Restitute the land confiscated from the Maasai and compensate them for the displacement and 3
- 5. Re-establish and maintain access to health and social services in the Ngorongoro Conservation 3
- Area 3
- 6. Disclose the whereabouts of all arrested Maasai community members and ensure that all 3
- 7. Take all necessary measures to preserve the rule of law and protect human rights in accordance 3
- For more information please contact cedkadimagmail.com goldarapozogmail.com lloyd.kuveyaup.ac.za www.chr.up.ac.za 3
- Mr Cedric Kadema Ms Golda Rapozo Mr Lloyd Kuveya Assistant Director Operations Centre for Human Rights 3
