Zimbabwe – Girls’ Forced Marriages – Hunger – Rights
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: May 29, 2006
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marriage……..”Early marriage leads to early motherhood and problems with
health, education, and life expectancy.”
(b) Consent to marriage
Hunger Forces Zimbabwe Girls into Forced Marriages
Tariro Muchina was barely in her teens late last year when her father
“sold” her off into an arranged marriage in the small-scale farming district of Nyamajura, about 250km east of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. Twelve months down the line, the 14-year-old Muchina, who “I had to leave school to marry Muchina is married to a balding and Showing surprisingly little bitterness for someone She says: “I would have preferred to Faced with starvation after six The practice, which involves a But some hungry families from rural Zimbabwe is in its sixth year of a punishing economic With the “We are He adds: “Such traditions where poor families marry off their A village elder in Nyamajura, Kennias “As long as the bride price is paid, that is fine And, rather cynically, he adds: “It is a legitimate way of But the effects of forced marriages are already being felt, with “Girls are getting married at 13, because of coercion by Although there are efforts — Chipfatsura “We have an uphill task because as the But for Muchina and “If I ____________________________________________________________________________
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