INTRODUCTION Pastorelists and Hunter-Gatherers Communities in Tanzania have been exposed to massive evictions countrywide beginning the year 2006 to date. The national wide campaign to evict pastoralists implemented under the government strategy to protect the environment targeted only Maasai, Barbaig, Sukuma and Tatoga as well as Hunter-Gatherers, the Hadzabe and Dorobo l. In all areas where the evictions were implemented (Usangu-Ihefu, Kilosa, Mvomero, Ulanga, Nkasi, Mpanda, Same, Mwanga, Yaeda chini-Mbulu, Chalinze, Bagamoyo and Loliondo pastoralists and hunter-gatherers are a minorities'. The evictions took place based on the fact that political representation of pastoralists and Hunter-Gatherers at local and national levels does not exist or if exists it is weak. Political representations at local government authority and parliaments level is based on majority vote, hence absence of political representatives' at ward and parliamentary levels' for pastoralists and hunter-gatherers3. The political arrangement in Tanzania made it difficult for pastoralists,to influence political, economic as well as socio-cultural decisions of interest to their survival as a people in the contemporary Tanzanian society. Lack of political influence among pastoralists and hunter-gatherers of Tanzania subjected them to marginalization and discriminative practices in accessing social-cultural and economic resources for their development. A number of political statements have been made high level national leaders that further political, economic and social cultural discrimination'. ABSENCE OF POLITICAL WILL ON THE PART OF THE STATE CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF EFFECTIVE POLITICAL PARTICIPATION THROUGH.OBSERVATION OF HUMAN. RIGHTS

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