As rain drizzles, Teddy Meshack,18, is lazily lying on a mat in a shack in Tanzania’s Mbarika village, breastfeeding her baby. She is trying to protect the baby from cold, as the leaky roof gives way ...

On the International Day of the Girl Child, activists in Tanzania strongly criticize the government for embracing a half-century-old marriage law that gives parents the right to marry underaged girls.

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 ...

Tanzania’s highest court has upheld a landmark 2016 ruling that raised the minimum age of marriage to 18. The Supreme Court of Appeals’ decision, announced Wednesday, was greeted by child welfare and ...

Girls and boys in Tanzania have cause to celebrate: child marriage is now illegal in the country. Tanzania's Marriage Act of 1971 sets the minimum marriage age for girls at 15 with parental consent, ...

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 ...

DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – 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 ...

Tanzania has committed to eliminate child, early and forced marriage by 2030, in line with target 5.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals. The country also co-sponsored the 2013 and 2014 UN General ...

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 ...

“I had passed my exams and was admitted to join secondary school, but my father said I had to marry a 34-year-old man because he had paid dowry for me,” said Matilda, who married at 14. “My husband ...

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