Saving teen girls from early marriage – and mutilation

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Saving teen girls from early marriage — and mutilation
PRI
I'm on a bumpy dirt road leading out of Tarime in rural, northern Tanzania. With me is local child rights activist Kambibi Kamugisha. As we leave the city behind, we notice small processions of people decked out with crowns and sashes. They're blowing ...

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

02 Nov

Hapless Tarime girls forced into early marriage

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.

 

10 years ago

New Vision

12 Jan

Tanzanian girls return after escaping genital mutilation

New Vision
Tanzanian girls return after escaping genital mutilation
New Vision
HUNDREDS of Tanzanian schoolgirls returned home Monday after spending three months hiding in safe houses to escape genital mutilation, state television said. Female genital mutilation (FGM) can range from hacking off the clitoris to the removal of the ...

 

10 years ago

BBC

01 Apr

Saving girls from the 'cutting season'

The woman saving girls from the 'cutting season'

 

11 years ago

AOL Travel UK

21 Feb

British police to hunt for men who threw acid over teen girls in Zanzibar

Evening Standard
British police to hunt for men who threw acid over teen girls in Zanzibar
AOL Travel UK
British detectives have been allowed to join the hunt for two men who threw battery acid on teenagers Kirstie Trup and Katie Gee in Zanzibar last August. The acid was thrown on the British girls, both 18, from a motorbike on the island. Kirstie's father Marc, 51, ...
Police head for Zanzibar to hunt for thugs who threw acid at Brit girlsMirror.co.uk

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10 years ago

Daily News

04 Dec

15 Siha girls cheat FGM, marriage

15 Siha girls cheat FGM, marriage
Daily News
FIFTEEN primary school children who had been lined up for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and subsequent marriage have been saved from the ordeal as police have been called in to handle the matter. The children, mainly from pastoralt communities here ...

 

10 years ago

Thomson Reuters Foundation

30 Oct

Tanzania: Child Marriage Harms Girls

Tanzania: Child Marriage Harms Girls
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Child marriage in Tanzania limits girls' access to education and exposes them to serious harms. Human Rights Watch ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

09 Aug

Empowering girls to avoid early pregnancies

A question for mothers. How many of you would put their daughters on contraceptives? Yes you got me right.

 

11 years ago

SOS Children

21 Jan

Protecting girls from child marriage in Tanzania and worldwide

SOS Children
Protecting girls from child marriage in Tanzania and worldwide
SOS Children
1988 saw the first SOS Children's Village open in Tanzania at Zanzibar, followed by a children's village at Arusha and Dar es Salaam. Over 150 are cared for in loving family homes at these locations and more than 700 children from the local communities ...

 

10 years ago

Daily News

08 May

Project saves 5000 Mara girls from child marriage

Project saves 5000 Mara girls from child marriage
Daily News
ABOUT 5,000 girls were rescued from child marriage in Mara region in the past three years following implementation of a project, Mobilizing Action to Safeguard the Rights of Girls in Tanzania. The project, which is being carried out by Children's Dignity Forum ...

 

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