Although recent amendments have addressed some shortcomings of the legal framework governing rape in Bangladesh, it remains ...

Talitha Kum Bangladesh is empowering religious sisters and youth communities in the South Asian country to fight against human trafficking, child marriage and forced marriage with its new training ...

The Ministry of Women and Child Affairs has announced plans to form 6,200 quick response teams across the country to combat child marriage. Officials said relevant laws are being amended to support ...

DHAKA — Bangladesh on Monday approved a law setting a two-year jail term for anyone involved in marrying a girl aged under 18, in a bid to cut the country’s notoriously high child marriage rate.

Dhaka, Bangladesh, 6 December 2023 — A recent assessment by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) reveals a dramatic increase in child marriage within Bangladesh's highly disaster-prone and climate ...

Bangladesh has the second-highest rate of child marriage in the world, after Niger, says the United Nations children's agency, UNICEF. About 74 percent of Bangladeshi women currently aged 20 to 49 ...

Bangladesh must ramp up efforts to tackle its "epidemic" of child marriage -- a problem fuelled by the country's repeated natural disasters, rights campaigners said on Tuesday.