Child Marriage
Why laws and campaigns are failing to stop child marriage
Why parents to resort to child marriage?
Young people belong in school, not at work
Why are so many out of school then?
Opinion / Climate change is fuelling child marriage in Bangladesh
Climate change adaptation programmes must support efforts that promote greater access to quality education for adolescent girls.
Reducing preterm births is an achievable goal. Why are we failing then?
Comprehensive measures needed to tackle this issue effectively
Why is child marriage still so rampant?
Shocking revelations coming out of Brac study
National Girl Child Day / We must radically reimagine girls’ rights
Even in 2023, there are a number of very basic rights that Bangladeshi girls don't have.
FEATURE / Begum Rokeya and Begum Sufia An enduring “mother-daughter” bond
Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) and Begum Sufia Kamal (1911-1999), two icons in Bangla literature and culture, were not kins but kindred spirits.
Ensuring child rights: Social protection schemes are crucial
Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian social reformer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Malala Yousafzai in 2014, talks to the The Daily Star about the global child rights situation during his visit to Bangladesh on January 14-18.
How did Bangladeshi women fare in 2022?
Women's achievements were overshadowed by the gendered inequalities they continue to face
Child Marriage of Rohingya girl stopped in Malaysia
The wedding dinner is being prepared for about 100 guests. But the police knocked on the door as the bride was an 11-year-old girl who was about to be married off to a man 10 years older than her.
Tortured for a good deed
A madrasa teacher and an imam of a mosque have been beaten up allegedly for preventing a child marriage at Hatia upazila in Noakhali.
Child marriage law must be stringent
It has been one year since the controversial Child Marriage Restraint Act 2017 has been enacted. At a recent discussion among rights groups it was revealed that as rules under the Act have not been formulated, there has been a rise in misuse of the law.
'Sea change' needed to achieve goal of ending child marriage by 2030
A "sea change" is needed to achieve a global goal of ending child marriage by 2030, campaigners say ahead of a major meeting aimed at stopping the practice.
Triumph of a teenager
The wedding was to be held yesterday.
Child Marriage: Declines globally, not in Bangladesh
Child marriages still remain high in Bangladesh, although the rate is globally declining, with the largest drop in South Asia, according
Banning child marriage in light of religion
The Child Marriage Restraint Act 2017 which allowed girls under 18 and boys under 21 to be married off under “special circumstances” was undoubtedly the country's most controversial law of 2017.
Obliged to stop it, he does the opposite
If informed about a child marriage, a union parishad chairman, like any other local government representative, becomes legally obliged to step in to stop the social evil.
999 service used to stop child marriage
A person used the newly introduced toll-free national emergency helpline 999 service to stop a child marriage in Chittagong's Rangunia early yesterday.
Trishal girls in action
A group of 12 schoolgirls has created waves in the local community by preventing four child marriages over the last two weeks in Balipara union of Trishal upazila of Mymensingh.
