HEAD of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania (ELCT) Dr Fredrick Shoo has urged clerics to put much effort into promoting human rights for the country’s sustainable development.
CLERICS have suggested the need for the government to correct underinvestment in inequality in public services and social protection and raise minimum wages and enforce labour rights for all.
Speaking in Dodoma recently, the Interfaith Standing Committee on Economic Justice and Integrity of Creation Co-Chairman, Sheikh Khamis Mataka said since 2017, religious institutions under the Muslim Council of Tanzania, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania and Tanzania Episcopal Conference, were at the forefront in pushing for the campaign on.
UNESCO Dar es salaam Head of Office, Mr Tirso Dos Santos has handed over 560 copies of the Religious Leaders’ Adolescents, Sexual and Reproductive Health