The Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) has petitioned Parliament calling for an inquiry into the country's failure to curb child marriage warning that thousands of girls remain unprotected despite ...

HAUNA, Zimbabwe, Oct 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When the girls at Sahumani Secondary School in eastern Zimbabwe started playing rugby, they had to make do with the soccer pitch and the oversized ...

Young women and girls in Zimbabwe are using an ancient tradition to fight child marriages and campaign for gender equality. Inside a white tent in rural northeastern Zimbabwe, girls discuss sexuality, ...

On Wednesday, the Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court ruled in favor of two women who appealed to the court to raise the legal age of marriage to 18 for all genders and effectively banning child marriage ...

In a statement released on Saturday, the UN in Zimbabwe criticized the practice of child marriage in the country. This follows the untimely death of an expecting adolescent girl who died during ...

Available data indicates that infidelity, communication breakdown and gender-based violence remain the leading causes. An ...

Parents often marry girls off young so they have less mouths to feed, and dowry payments may be a further incentive LONDON, Jan 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — In Zimbabwe, where girls as young as 10 are forced to marry due to poverty or traditional and religious practices, a teenage taekwondo enthusiast is using the sport to give girls in ...

Catherine Muranganwa, whose two sisters were married before they turned 18, says the sport opened her eyes to different possibilities HAUNA, Zimbabwe, Oct 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When the ...

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 ...