Sextorstion And The Concept Of Sextortion In Tanzania

Access to justice and equality for all people is one of the most important weapons to fight against any discrimination which may contribute to the delay of national development. Tanzania is among of the least developing country in the world whereby 51.8 of her population are women (National Census, 2012). However, at the national level women remain in a big challenging position to access equal right like their counterpart men. This has been said by activists for women’s rights (Tanzania Media Women Association, Tanzania Association of Women Judges, and Tanzania Gender Network Program) due to the laws which conflicting of discriminating on the other side and the reality show the big gap between the intention and practice.

A report by the Tanzania

It is a new concept used to explain the conducts which is not only sexually abused, abut also incorporates the element of corruption (Kambole, 2013). Sextortion is a global phenomenon, but in most cases goes unreported and the impunity is common for perpetrators. It is from this impunity the International Association of women Judges (IAWJ) 2009 launched the program of stopping the abuse of power, for sexual exploitation: Naming, shaming and ending

The element of sextortion includes sexual corruption, quid pro quo and psychological coercion rather than physical (IAWJ, 2009).

Corruption element. As far as corruption is concerned, the perpetrators must be a person or an individual in authority being involved in demanding or accepting sexual favour in exchange for the exercised of authority. The abuse of authority can be exercised in many ways, including legal authority, moral authority, traditional authority, and religious authority, the authority of a teacher or supervisor, or the authority of physical force. The important thing to note here is that, the perpetrators of these acts, must be a person with authority. For-example teacher authority to pass students in return for sexual favours (TAWJ,