The government has intensified efforts to eradicate child marriage through a coordinated, multi-ministerial approach as part of its renewed commitment to protect girls鈥� rights and accelerate gender equality in Bangladesh.
Early marriage and adolescent pregnancy remain widespread among the workers in the country鈥檚 readymade garment sector, an ICDDR,B study reveals...
A man named Shahdat Hossain Rohan has been accused of raping a woman in Dhaka鈥檚 Kamrangirchar area under the pretext of marriage...
A Bangladeshi expatriate on Friday night was fined by a mobile court for an arrangement to marry an underage girl at Gournadi upazila of Barishal...
An ongoing inquiry has found that early marriage and early employment due to poverty and social insecurity have barred an exceptionally large number of students from appearing in this year鈥檚 Secondary School Certificate examinations.
The High Court on Sunday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain why the provision related to inducement by promise of marriage, incorporated in the Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Ordinance, should not be declared unconstitutional and repealed.
China on Saturday announced measures to simplify the marriage registration process and lessen the financial burden on couples, the latest initiative by Beijing to boost births.
A crackdown on illegal child marriages in India鈥檚 northeast has resulted in nearly 5,000 arrests, after 416 people were detained in the latest police sweep, a minister said on Sunday.
Speakers, including an academic, at a roundtable discussion on Sunday emphasised that coordinated efforts were essential to eliminate child marriage and violence against children nationwide...
Rajshahi divisional commissioner Dewan Muhammad Humayun Kabir said on Thursday that about 99 per cent women who got married before turning 18 suffered from cervical cancer, a disease that...
Youth and sports adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain on Monday said that there was no alternative to expand sports nationwide to eliminate child marriage and child labour...
A Pakistan court overturned ex-prime minister Imran Khan's conviction on illegal marriage charges on Saturday, though he remains jailed over allegations of inciting riots.
ADVOCATES for preventing child marriage, both within the government and in society, are understandably frustrated. Despite the national policy setting 18 as the legal age of marriage for girls, the Child Marriage Restraint Act being passed in 2017, and the adoption...
The country will require 215 years to eliminate child marriage as per the current rate of reduction of child marriage in the country, said the United Nations Population Fund...
