The coronavirus pandemic has caused a sharp and steady rise in child marriages in Bangladesh, raising fears that the South Asian country might not meet its goal of eliminating child marriage any ...

Ending child marriage in Bangladesh and beyond Changing a social norm like child marriage might seem daunting but the experience in Bangladesh shows it can be done.

In 2014, Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pledged to end child marriage before the age of 15 by 2021, and to by that date reduce by one-third marriages between the ages of 15 and 18.

Up until 2016, the Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929 was the only statute that considered Child Marriage to be an offence in Bangladesh. It had responsibly set a legal age for girls (18 years and ...

Bangladesh has been accused of taking a “devastating step backwards” in the fight against child marriage by introducing a legal loophole that sets no age limit for wedlock.

Age BA, pore bie (education first, then marriage) – this simple slogan, long championed separately by a government education ...

Impact of climate change on child marriage in Bangladesh: Climate change adaptation programmes must support efforts that promote greater access to quality education for adolescent girls.

While child marriage is an issue that has plagued the entire country, the prevalence is higher in the remote char lands in the country’s northern parts due to poverty, illiteracy and insecurity ...

Progress has been made, but at the rate we're going, it will take another 300 years to end child marriage around the world.

In this article, we will take a look at the 17 countries with the highest child marriage rates in the world. We know that some cultures globally continue to permit child marriage as a deeply ...

The man who already has two wives, got married to a sixyear old girl on Friday and was stopped by Taliban administration from ...

A report by global NGO Save the Children included Bangladesh among 10 nations considered “top 10 child marriage-climate hotspot countries”. The NGO’s report also issued a stark warning: by 2050, ...