Bangladesh has the highest prevalence of child marriage in South Asia, with 51 percent of girls married before turning 18 between 2006 and 2024, according to a report released yesterday by the United Nations.
Bangladesh has the highest child marriage rate in Asia and ranks 8th globally, with 51.4 percent of women aged 20-24 married before they turned 18, according to a Unicef report released on International Women’s Day.
Child marriage in Bangladesh hinders girls' education and lifelong opportunities.
Despite efforts and three decades of education-focused interventions, Bangladesh continues to be ranked eighth in the world today in terms of the incidence of child marriage.
As Meem tended to the child, a group of girls around her age strolled past the yard.
Why parents to resort to child marriage?
Why are so many out of school then?
Climate change adaptation programmes must support efforts that promote greater access to quality education for adolescent girls.
Comprehensive measures needed to tackle this issue effectively
According to UNICEF, 23,000 children would not have to die if women in the country did not give birth before the age of 20.
The news of marriage of an underage girl after coercion and torture, allegedly by a policeman, is deplorable.
You give dowry and I receive it, why are you bringing government into this?”said a woman in a village in Rangpur district during a discussion on women's status.
It is extremely disappointing that despite all the concerns expressed by activists and international organisations working for the rights of young girls...
Although the minimum marriageable age of girls will remain unchanged at 18, a rule of the proposed Child Marriage Restraint Act would allow girls, aged 16 to 18, to get married under special circumstances, with permission from courts or their parents.
The news of three people – a mother, stepfather and husband- being sent to jail for forcing a twelve-year-old girl into marriage...
The news of three people – a mother, stepfather and husband- being sent to jail for forcing a twelve-year-old girl into marriage...
The Daily Star report that around 2,500 students have dropped out of school in the last three years in Bogra's Dhunat upazilla, due to extreme poverty and child marriage...
The Child Bill 2013 is supposed to be in harmony with the CRC and recognises that an individual below 18 is a child. Why then do we still have child marriages? Why then do we have little children working in homes, in biri factories, in garbage dumps and tanneries?
A new draft law proposed by the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs recommends that although the minimum age for marriage for girls should remain 18, a special provision in the law will allow parents to marry off their daughters at 16 if there are justifiable reasons for doing so.
