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 could take Bangladesh more than 200 years to eliminate child marriage at the current pace of decline, the United Nations ...

Child marriage in Bangladesh has declined over the past six years, but progress remains too slow to meet national or global targets, according to findings of the Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster ...

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 ...

Youth groups, teachers, faith leaders and local committees are jointly tackling early marriage through awareness-building, reporting and timely community action ...

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 ...

DHAKA, Oct 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bangladesh must do more to tackle child marriage if it is to meet its own goal of eliminating the crime by 2041, according to a United Nations report ...

NEW DELHI - Millions of girls are at risk if the Bangladeshi government goes ahead with a proposal to lower the age of marriage to 16, Human Rights Watch warned on Monday. The impoverished South Asian ...

Martial arts teacher Santwana Rani Roy poses with her students at an open field in Lalmonirhat in northern Bangladesh on October 10, 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/ Ananta Yusuf Santwana Roy was 16 ...

A January 10 court ruling in Bangladesh, which stated that women cannot be marriage registrars, also known as Qazi in Islamic law, has become the talk of the country as women and human rights ...

From Momotaz v. Sattar, decided Thursday by the Ohio Court of Appeals, in an opinion by Judge Sean Gallagher, joined by Judges Anita Laster Mays and Eileen Gallagher: On August 22, 2005, the parties ...

PATERSON — Not many people get to see themselves on a digital billboard in Times Square. But Rumki Chowdhury of Paterson — a local school teacher — experienced that last month, after her novel ...