After a three-day visit to the country, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Tuesday urged Bangladesh to end child marriage and close the gaps in national law that still allow it. In a ...

UNICEF says child marriage is cutting short girls’ education and opportunities, while urging stronger investment in health and protection ...

She underscored the Government’s commitment to improving the quality of education and progressively increasing investment in ...

"In that moment, my heart was stripped naked. I apologized, wiping my eyes." ...

Nearly a decade after the Child Marriage Restraint Act, 2017 was enacted, its contradictions expose a deeper failure: the ...

20 October 2026 Human Rights At 14, Bushra faced being married off – until community leaders at a UNICEF-supported child ...

It's pretty rare, these days, to find something out of France that absolutely gobsmacks you in terms of its cultural myopia.

A new chapter in the movement for women’s and girls’ rights in South Asia unfolded in Bangladesh. Adolescent girls have ...

Nearly half of Bangladeshi women aged 20 to 24, or 47.2 per cent, were married before turning 18, highlighting the ...

Girls face a range of practical challenges when moving from secondary school or college to university and subsequently ...

The woman regularly sent money home during the first six months of her stay, but the remittances stopped after she was ...