Children’s Dignity Forum (CDF) -- Chair of the Tanzania Ending Child Marriage Network TECMN, Human Rights Watch, Foundation for Women Health, Research and Development (FORWARD), Tanzania Media Women’s ...

BAGAMOYO, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mwanaharusi Mrisho was stunned when her father abruptly removed her from school at the age of 15 and married her off to a much older man because the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A landmark court ruling raising the legal age of marriage for girls ...

(Nairobi) – Child marriage in Tanzania limits girls’ access to education and exposes them to serious harms, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch documented cases in ...

I HAVE decided to start a little series called The Family Files. Why? Because family is where every society begins. Before there are judges, police officers or Members of Parliament, there is a family ...

In October 2019, Tanzania's high court upheld the landmark 2016 ruling that increased the minimum age of marriage for girls and boys to 18. The Tanzanian government attempted to repeal this decision, ...

GIRLS who marry early are often excluded from formal education and employment and are at a higher risk to get pregnancy, HIV infection, disease and maternal health complications, such as obstetric ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An activist whose petition earlier this year triggered a Tanzanian high court ruling against child marriage said social transformation was needed to end the ...

A landmark court ruling raising the legal age of marriage for girls in Tanzania to 18 will have little impact in ending child marriage if parents continue to marry off their daughters for bride price ...

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Tanzania’s Supreme Court of Appeal on Wednesday upheld an earlier ruling banning parents from marrying off girls as young as 15. A high court ruling in 2016 had declared “unconstitutional” sections of ...