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Zimbabwe: Top Court Outlaws Child Marriage
DW, 20 January 2016
Zimbabwe's constitutional court has outlawed child marriage after two women who married as children took the government to court. One-third of women in Zimbabwe married before the… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Concourt Outlaws Under 18 Marriages, Biti Hails Judgement As Revolutionary
New Zimbabwe, 20 January 2016
THE Constitutional Court has ruled that with effect from 20 January 2016 marriages of girls under the age of 18 are not only illegal but also criminal. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Court Outlaws Child Marriages
The Herald, 20 January 2016
The Constitutional Court has outlawed child marriages by ruling that no child in Zimbabwe should marry before attaining 18 years. Read more »
Zimbabwe Court Outlaws Child Marriage
The constitutional court has ruled in favour of two former child brides following a legal battle.
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Zimbabwe: Child Marriages Surge
The Herald, 7 January 2016
School heads in Magunje district in Mashonaland West Province have expressed concern over the rampant cases of child marriages in the area and urged the public to report such cases… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Expedite Realignment of Family Laws, Says Chikwinya
The Herald, 18 January 2016
Government must expedite the realignment of family laws in the first quarter of this year to ensure the rights of women and children enshrined in the Constitution are protected, a… Read more »
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Africa: Strengthen Steps to End Child Marriage
HRW, 9 December 2015
African governments should coordinate action to improve laws, education, health care, and public awareness to end the scourge of child marriage, Human Rights Watch said today on… Read more »
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Africa: Southern Africa - Customary Practices Make a Mockery of New Constitutions
Gender Links, 25 August 2015
Johannesburg, 25 August: South Africa has one of the most progressive constitutions in the world. Despite this, President Jacob Zuma advocates for polygamy using the argument that… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Child Brides Take Bull By the Horns
The Herald, 15 April 2015
Our Children, Our FutureLoveness Mudzuru and Ruvimbo Tsopodzi were 16-year-old girls just beginning to plan careers as social workers or nurses when they were forced to marry men… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Child Brides Take Govt to Court Over Marriage Laws
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 24 March 2015
Two former child brides have taken Zimbabwe's government to court in a ground-breaking bid to get child marriages declared illegal and unconstitutional. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Call for Laws to Protect 'Child Brides'
Zimbabwe Standard, 25 January 2015
Civil society organisations have called on stakeholders to fight for legislation that provides support and education assistance for young girls that fall pregnant. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Judgment Reserved in Marriages Case
The Herald, 15 January 2015
Judgment in a case in which two teenagers filed a Constitutional Court application challenging the Customary Marriages Act claiming it allows girls to get married at an early age… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Marriage Laws Challenged
The Herald, 17 October 2014
Two victims of child marriage have taken Government to court challenging the constitutionality of the country's marriage laws which they said were discriminatory on the legal age… Read more »
