In Mymensingh's Trishal upazila, child marriage has a dynamic new foe: a brigade of schoolgirls. Led by Mahbuba Alam Tripti, the

Barisal District Administration yesterday announced that it would take measures to bring down child marriages to zero in the district.

As many as 23,000 children might be saved a year in Bangladesh if women do not give birth before the age of 20, said a Unicef official, expressing concern over a high level of child marriage in the country.

The news of marriage of an underage girl after coercion and torture, allegedly by a policeman, is deplorable.

The news of three people – a mother, stepfather and husband- being sent to jail for forcing a twelve-year-old girl into marriage...

The Child Bill 2013 is supposed to be in harmony with the CRC and recognises that an individual below 18 is a child. Why then do we still have child marriages? Why then do we have little children working in homes, in biri factories, in garbage dumps and tanneries?

Kumar Bishwajit Barman has stopped about 700 child marriages and saved many teenagers and adults from the deadly claws of drug abuse in the northern district of Kurigram.

A new draft law proposed by the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs recommends that although the minimum age for marriage for girls should remain 18, a special provision in the law will allow parents to marry off their daughters at 16 if there are justifiable reasons for doing so.

In quest for boys, a couple in Gujarat takes 14 daughters at the rate of one every year, and finally had a boy two years ago.

Flavia Agnes, prominent Indian lawyer and co-founder and director of MAJLIS, India, speaks to Nahela Nowshin of The Daily Star on May 16 at the second forum of Gender, Justice and Religion held at Spectra Convention Centre in Dhaka.