"National Baseline Assessment of the Current Implementation of Business and Human Rights Frameworks in the United Republic of Tanzania"

...The Baseline was developed by CHRAGG, with technical support from the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR). Both organisations are A-status National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) with the mandate to protect and promote human rights...The Baseline includes...field mission case studies [on the operations of Shanta Gold and Kapunga Rice].

[In relation to Shanta Gold], the team observed that human rights impacts caused by Shanta Mining activities gave rise to causes of action in the communities of the three villages, yet their claims often failed to proceed and where remedies were obtained these did not meet community expectations compared to the harm suffered. Besides judicial mechanisms being in place as a means of achieving accountability and access to remedy in cases of business-related human rights abuses, communities lack knowledge and information about non-judicial mechanisms and non-State grievance mechanisms at the operational and community level...[In relation to Kapunga Rice] a number of concerns were noted including: hiring children, some of whom were reported to be seen working during school hours; lack of workers’ representation; and lack of a common formula for determining employees’ salaries/wages, contrary to the labour standards.