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Tanzania Ending Child Marriage Network (TECMN) welcomes new members !
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| TECMN representative in a group photo after the meeting |
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| The Executive Director of CDF Tanzania - Mr.Koshuma Mtengeti (with glasses) giving the opening remarks during the TECMN meeting that took place in Children's Dignity Forum Conference Hall |
The main purposes & objectives of this network are as follows:
- To increase awareness of the harmful impact of the child marriage at community, national & international levels
- To advocate for policy reforms to end child marriage and resource mobilization to support married girls and girls at risk
- To strengthen learning and coordination between organizations working to end child marriage in Tanzania
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| Members of the network in a meeting Follow us on Twitter @TECMN Tanzaniahttps://twitter.com/EndCEFM Facebook :https://www.facebook.com/tanzaniaEndingChildMarriageNetwork/?ref=bookmarks |
Three laws that countries can adopt to address child marriage
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| Credit: Ravi Juneja | Girls Not Brides |
MACHEquity found that countries with consistent laws had child marriage rates that were 40% lower than countries with inconsistent laws.
Something for government to take on board as they implement the #GlobalGoals target to #EndChildMarriage by 2030!
Read more - http://www.girlsnotbrides.org/three-laws-that-countries-can-adopt-to-address-child-marriage/
IDG 2015: Theme: The Power of the Adolescent Girl: Vision for 2030
This year, as the international community assesses progress under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) since their implementation in 2000 and sets goals to be achieved by 2030, girls born at the turn of the millennium have reached adolescence, and the generation of girls born this year will be adolescents in 2030.
As we reflect on the achievements of the past 15 years and plan sustainable development goals for the next 15, it is an opportune time to consider the importance of social, economic, and political investment in the power of adolescent girls as fundamental to breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination and to achieving equitable and sustainable development outcomes.
More on this : http://www.un.org/en/events/girlchild/
Tanzania Ending Child Marriage Network (TECMN)
It was launched on the commemoration of the International Day of the Girl Child which was on the 11th October 2012.
The main purposes / objectives of the network are as follows
- To increase awareness of the harmful impact of the child marriage at community, national and international levels.
- To advocate for policy reforms to end child marriage and resource mobilization to support married girls and girls at risk, To strengthen learning and coordination between organizations working to end child marriage in Tanzania.
Children’s Dignity Forum (CDF) hold the secretariat of the TECMN
About Child Marriage
CHILD MARRIAGE: WHAT DOES INTERNATIONAL LAW SAY?
The right to ‘free and full’ consent to a marriage is recognised in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) prohibits child marriage.
Under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), governments have committed to ensure the overall protection of children and young people aged under 18, however, child marriage and the range of rights implications it has, substantially infringe these protections.
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