Dar es Salaam, March 27 -- ZANZIBAR: TANZANIA has taken various measures to protect, uphold and promote human rights as enshrined in respective constitutions of Zanzibar and that of the United Republic of Tanzania.

Minister of State, Presidents Office (Constitution, Legal Affairs, Public Service, and Good Governance) Zanzibar, Dr Haroun Ali Suleiman said this yesterday while opening a three-day workshop on the ‘Draft Country Report on the Implementation of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights and the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa in the isles.

Dr Suleiman emphasised that Tanzania has ratified the charter and continues to implement it, as reflected in the 1977 Union Constitution and the 1984 Zanzibar Constitu...