The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has recommended that the women and children affairs ministry refrain from taking any legislative measures to lower the girls' minimum marriageable age below 18.

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

Human Rights Watch urges Bangladesh government to stop its proposal to lower the age of marriage for girls to 16 from 18.