An activist whose petition earlier this year triggered a Tanzanian high court ruling against child marriage said social transformation was needed to end the longstanding custom many families use as a "survival system" - not least signing up men. "Changing the law is not the ultimate end to child marriage," said Rebeca Gyumi, founder of the Msichana Initiative, a Tanzanian charity promoting girls' rights. "Changing mindsets and trying to trigger the shift of customs and traditions is the next thing we are planning to do," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in London. The High Court of Tanzania ruled in July that two sections of the 1971 Marriage Act, which allow girls to marry at 15 with parental consent and at 14 with the permission of a court, were unconstitutional. ...
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