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==== Tanzania==== In 2016, the [[High Court of Tanzania|Tanzanian High Court]] β in a case filed by the ''Msichana Initiative'', a lobbying group that advocates for girls' right to education β ruled in favor of protecting girls from the harms of early marriage.<ref name="autogenerated5" /><ref name="Tanzania">{{cite web |date=8 July 2016 |title=Dispatches: Tanzanian High Court Rules Against Child Marriage | Human Rights Watch |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/07/08/dispatches-tanzanian-high-court-rules-against-child-marriage |access-date=2016-07-11 |publisher=Human Rights Watch}}</ref> It is now illegal for anyone younger than 18 to marry in Tanzania.<ref name="Tanzania" />
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