Last Change:
06/25/2025
The Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act
Year: 2008
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Liberty & security of person
Description
The Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of Tanzania, enacted in 2008, criminalizes all forms of human trafficking. It provides legal measures for the prevention, protection of victims, and prosecution of offenders, aligning with international standards like the Palermo Protocol.
Selected provisions
A person commits an offence of trafficking in person if that
person -
(a) recruits, transports, transfers, harbors, provides or receives a
person by any means, including those done under the pretext of
domestic or overseas employment, training or apprenticeship, for
the( of prostitution, pornography, sexual exploitation, forced
labour; slavery, involuntary servitude or debt bondage;
(b) introduces or matches a person to a foreign national for marriage
for the of acquiring, buying, offering, selling or trading
the person in order that person be engaged in prostitution,
pornography, sexual exploitation, forced labour, slavery, involuntary servitude or debt bondage;
(c) offers or contracts marriage, real or simulated, for the purpose
of acquiring, buying, offering, selling or trading a person in order that person be engaged in prostitution, pornography, sexual
exploitation, forced labour or slavery, involuntary servitude
or debt bondage;
(d) undertakes or organizes sex tourism or sexual exploitation;
(e) maintains or hires a person to engage in prostitution or
pornography;
(0 adopts or facilitates the adoption of persons for the purpose of
prostitution, pornography, sexua lexploitation, forced-labour and
slavery, involuntary servitude or debt bondage;
(g) recruits, hires, adopts, transports or abducts -
(i) a person, by means of threat or use of force, fraud, deceit,
violence ,coercion or intimidation for the purpose of removal
or sale of organs of the person; or
a child or a disabled person for the purposes of engaging the
child or the disabled person in armed activities.
The Minister shall, in consultation with the Minister responsible for social welfare services, put in place appropriate mechanisms to ensure the provision of basic material support, appropriate housing, counseling and information, medical, psychological and legal assistance to victims of trafficking in persons.
Any person who commits an offence under section 4 is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of not less than two years and not more than ten years or to a fine of not less than five million shillings and not more than one hundred million shillings or to both.