LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court outlawed child marriage on Wednesday after two former child brides took the government to court in a ground-breaking case to ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two former child brides have taken Zimbabwe's government to court in a ground-breaking bid to get child marriages declared illegal and unconstitutional. Loveness ...

Gender activists continue praising Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court for outlawing child marriages. They say the government and stakeholders should ensure that the court ruling is implemented. One of ...

Religious leaders in Kamuli District have joined forces to fight child marriage, declaring it a grave sin, a cultural abomination, and a threat to the dignity and future of girls. With support from ...

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Cultural and religious norms, poverty and weak law enforcement continue to drive cases of child marriage in Sulu and ...

Two women, who challenged the constitutionality of child marriages in the Constitutional Court and won the case, are happy that this will ensure that children can now live without fear of being ...

Sarah Zhou (not real name) grew up in a poverty-stricken family and at the age of 15, her father saw marriage as a way to reduce the family's financial burden. Zhou was married off in the ...