A law intended to stamp out child marriage may have had the opposite effect and lead to an increase, new research by King's ...

A law intended to stamp out child marriage may have lead to an increase in rural Bangladesh. A law intended to stamp out ...

Bangladesh has one of the world's highest rates of child marriage, with two thirds of girls ending up as child brides. Nearly 30 percent wed before their 15th birthday and many are much younger.

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bangladesh will be taking a step backwards in efforts to end child marriage if parliament approves changes to a law which would permit girls below 18 to be ...

It was a “side to Bangladesh I didn't want to see, I closed my eyes in an attempt to replace that memory with something more pleasant,” Chowdhury wrote. Critique of coerced marriage involving ...