Call for Tanzania to End Violence Against Children

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has encouraged Tanzania to urgently address the problem of violence against children.

UNICEF chief of child protection in Tanzania, Andrew Brooks, points out that, “Having had the courage to find out the scale and scope of violence against children in the country, the government now has the challenge of planning and delivering a proportionate response."

The call comes in the wake of a new government-led survey in which almost three quarters of girls and boys said they had experienced physical violence before the age of 18 at the hands of an adult or an intimate partner.

To read the article titled, “Results of survey on violence against children spur call to action by UN,” click here.