How girl escaped forced marriage

Girl raped yet forced into marriage
Daily News
SHE was walking to school one morning and before reaching her destination, one man hijacked her then took her to his house. This fifteen-year-old girl in Karagwe District, Kagera Region who was in Form Two at Kihanda Secondary School was held captive ...

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>Marriage is essentially a hallowed institution, but its place in society is gravely compromised by people, mostly greedy men, who have turned their daughters into commodities for sale in which, by and large, livestock is the currency.

I am one among nearly 50 children of my father, who has six wives. For none of them was his choice. Men come to my father with rings that act as a booking for a wife, just like they go to any Maasai elder who has or expects daughters.

Bunyinge Chacha 30, a resident of Buriba Village in Sirari Tarime District has been injured after her husband speared her in the right buttock allegedly for refusing to support the decision to marry off their 11 year-old daughter forcefully.

CTV News
Ottawa quietly pushing aid partner Tanzania on kids' rights, forced marriage
CTV News
OTTAWA -- Grim human rights reports on forced child marriages in Tanzania are making the government take a hard look at Prime Minister Stephen Harper's top African partner in his signature aid initiative. The most recent report by New York-based Human ...

Christian girl abducted, converted and forced to marry a Muslim in Lahore
AsiaNews.it
The family of Samariya Nadeem staged a protest this morning in front of the city's press club. For the past three weeks, their 16-year-old daughter has been in the hands of a wealthy landowner. As police and the authorities fail to free her, the Catholic Church ...
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Thomson Reuters Foundation
Rescue of 14-year-old Tanzanian girl from marriage hoped to deter
Thomson Reuters Foundation
In this 2008 file photo, Maasai girls study inside a classroom at Emusoi Centre in Arusha. REUTERS/David Conrad (TANZANIA). Tweet · Recommend · Google + · LinkedIn · Email Print. Leave us a comment. DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 13 (Thomson Reuters ...

Rescue of 14-year-old Tanzanian girl from marriage hoped to deter others
Reuters Africa
DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A dramatic rescue by Tanzanian police of a 14-year-old girl about to be married against her will should act as a warning to parents who marry off daughters for a dowry and deprive them of an ...