Early Marriage: Tanzania October 31, 2009 9:17 PM update October 31, 2009 9:18 PM Share . Print. Tanzania is a multicultural and multi-religious society with traditional views on sexuality still ...

Fruitful efforts to end child marriages in Tanzania can generate almost $5 billion in annual benefits within 15 years by reducing fertility rates and population growth, a new report has revealed.

Tanzania: Teen pregnancy, early marriage crushes dreams of girls Increasing number of schoolgirls are becoming mothers, thus ending prospects of their education Kizito Makoye | 13.12.2020 - Update ...

Tanzania’s Marriage Act of 1971 sets the minimum age at 18 for boys and 15 for girls with parental consent. It also permits both girls and boys to marry at 14 with a court’s permission.

Data collected by the Tanzania Media Women Association (TAMWA) shows a strong correlation between HIV/AIDS, early school exit, teenage marriage and pregnancy.

In 2016 Tanzania revised the legal age of marriage for girls from 15 years to 18 years, but this has since been appealed due to conflict with local customs. Lawson was recently awarded a National ...

A legal challenge led Tanzania’s high court to strike down two sections of the country’s marriage law in 2016, effectively raising a girl’s minimum marriageable age to 18 from as young as 14.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai celebrated her 28th birthday in Tanzania, using the occasion to highlight the ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai is celebrating her 28th birthday in Tanzania, where she is highlighting the challenges girls face in accessing education and early marriage rates remain ...

Child marriage is a serious problem in Tanzania affecting girls in rural areas. Although Tanzania’s Marriage Act of 1971 sets the marriage age for boys at 18, it allows girls as young as 14 to ...

The empirical research on early marriage is reviewed and restated in propositional form. The 23 propositions obtained are reduced to three theoretical propositions, involving social class, ...