Act on child marriage crisis, Graca challenges Dar varsity

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Lobby demands review of Child Law and Marriage Act
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Stakeholders are pushing for inclusion of their views to the controversial Child Law of 2009 citing the inherent contradiction of the law and the Marriage Act. While the latter legalises marriage of girls at the age 14 and 15 with court and parents ...

Dar pins Marriage Act review hopes on new constitution
Daily News
THE government has pegged its hopes regarding the overhaul of the repressive 1971 Marriage Act on the envisaged new constitution. The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Community Development, Gender and Children, Ms Ana Maenda, said the 1971 ...

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Graca Machel Snubs Child Marriages
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TANZANIA was on Tuesday asked to take the continental lead in the struggle against child marriage as the country did in its fight against colonialism across Southern Africa. Launching the National Ending Child Marriage Campaign, "Child Marriage- Free ...
Former S. Africa first lady Graca Machel leads campaign against child marriagesIPPmedia

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A third-year Economics student at Ardhi University, Mr Aman Nguku, has launched a book that challenges the youth to use their human and social capitals to realise their dreams.

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Former S. Africa first lady Graca Machel leads campaign against child marriages
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Graca Machel, reacts before two female children, Pili Mohere (L) and Happiness Rhobi at the launch of a National Ending Child Marriage Campaign at JNICC in Dar es Salaam yesterday. Graca Machel, Nelson Mandela's widow and founder of the Graca ...

>Our apologies  for the failure to run this column last Sunday. As a way to recoup what we ought to have offered then, we’ll skip our usual “lecturing” and confine ourselves to simply dishing out the gems we collected over the past two weeks.

Campaigning for a Child Marriage-Free Tanzania
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A new drive to end child marriage is underway in Tanzania. In a country where almost two out of five girls will be married before their 18th birthday, the "Child Marriage-Free Zone" campaign faces an uphill struggle. At the age of 16, Mahija Mwita was forced ...

Child marriage and FGM in Tanzania
Mail & Guardian Online
HRW calls on Tanzania to set the minimum age for marriage at 18, following an investigation into high levels of child marriage and FGM in the country. Child marriage in Tanzania limits girls' access to education and exposes them to serious harms, Human ...

Time to end child marriage is now
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United Nations Women Deputy Executive Director of Policy and Programme John Hendra once said: “Child marriage violates girls' rights and undermines girls' and young women's independence and autonomy.” Millions of girls — some as young as five ...
Efforts to End Child Marriage Needs Optimal SupportAllAfrica.com

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