Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) and Population Council jointly hosted the Roundtable Discussion on the Child Marriage Restraint Act 2017 in collaboration with the University of Kent...

The adolescent (15-19 years) birth rate in Bangladesh is still high as approximately 750,000 adolescent girls are giving birth annually, according to a new UN report.

A staggering 59 percent of the marriages that took place in Bangladesh between 2006 and 2017 involved brides below the age of 18, says a UN study.

Despite social and family barriers and financial hardships, the Tangail's girls' football team, comprising of 17 players, is moving forward thanks to team manager Kamrunnahar Munni's intensive efforts.

Despite social and family barriers and financial hardships, the Tangail's girls' football team, comprising of 17 players, is moving forward thanks to team manager Kamrunnahar Munni's intensive efforts.

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.

A madrasa teacher and an imam of a mosque have been beaten up allegedly for preventing a child marriage at Hatia upazila in Noakhali.

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.

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.

The wedding was to be held yesterday.

Child marriages still remain high in Bangladesh, although the rate is globally declining, with the largest drop in South Asia, according

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.

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.

A person used the newly introduced toll-free national emergency helpline 999 service to stop a child marriage in Chittagong's Rangunia early yesterday.

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.

The High Court issues a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain in four weeks why union parishad chairmen and members, ward councilors of city corporations and municipalities will not be held responsible for the child marriage in their respective areas.

It is often said that if you want to know the truth about the world, ask a child. Perhaps, it's an unconditioned mind that lets a child see things for what they really are.

Shabana Akhter was a student of class eight when her father arranged her marriage with a complete stranger, but she could not let

Sex with a minor amounts to rape even if the couple are married, India's top court rules, closing a legal loophole that allows some perpetrators to escape punishment.

Bithi Akter's mehendi is still peeping out from under the bandage wrapped around her wound on the left hand. The 15-year-old