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 ...
Nearly half of Bangladeshi women aged 20 to 24, or 47.2 per cent, were married before turning 18, highlighting the ...
A new chapter in the movement for women’s and girls’ rights in South Asia unfolded in Bangladesh. Adolescent girls have ...
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Bangladesh: UNICEF chief calls for an end to child marriage
20 October 2026 Human Rights At 14, Bushra faced being married off – until community leaders at a UNICEF-supported child ...
DHAKA: Nearly half of young women in Bangladesh were married before turning 18, as UNICEF pressed the government to keep girls in school and close legal loopholes that permit chil ...
Over the past 25 years, Bangladesh has sharply reduced maternal and newborn deaths, expanded education and employment, and ...
Nearly a decade after the Child Marriage Restraint Act, 2017 was enacted, its contradictions expose a deeper failure: the ...
Dhaka, Feb 28 (AFP) A controversial child marriage law in Bangladesh which allows children as young as 14 to be married off by their parents was criticised by rights groups today. Parliament passed ...
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