Ministry of Community Development Gender and Children Permanent Secretary Mariam Mwaffisi has challenged women in the country to properly use acquired education to eradicate discrimination.
Launching a two-day workshop on human rights and gender in Dar es Salaam yesterday, Mwaffisi said: ``Women have a big role to play in the society.
The training is important for them to exchange ideas on human rights violation and to give them awareness of their basic rights.``
Mwaffisi said the workshop aimed at educating women about human rights to enable them be conversant with their rights and defend them whenever they are abused.
``The training is part of the government`s plan to eradicate discrimination. We want to eradicate the concepts of men who think women have no right to own and operate business,`` said Mwaffisi.
Mwaffisi added that some traditions attributed to discrimination for women causing development to lag behind due to discrimination creating psychological and economic effects by denying women the right to own properties.
She said most women lost their rights because of a continued perception that everything said by men was right.
On her part a participant, Merion Namwenje from Mtwara Region urged the government to organise a similar seminar for men to enable them treat women like human beings.
She sighted an example of men in Mtwara who she claimed discriminated their wives during harvest adding: ``These men don`t even go farming but all they do is to wait for crops selling period and later on use all the money for boozing and women causing farther spread of HIV/Aids.``
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