Child Marriage

Everyone who loves football has seen showing red card to footballers by a referee for foul play, but it is almost a surprising and strange event for many when they see schoolchildren in Bangladesh are showing...

Collective efforts of all government and non-government entities concerned have become an urgent need to combat child marriage and child pregnancy. Prevention of children marriage and child pregnancy is the precondition for substantial and sustainable improvement...

Girls Not Brides – the global partnership to end child marriage, hosted the world’s biggest ever global meeting on ending child marriage in Malaysia. Progress to end child marriage must be accelerated, urged civil society organizations from...

South Asia has witnessed the largest decline in child marriage worldwide in the last 10 years, as a girl’s risk of marrying before her 18th birthday has dropped by more than a third, from nearly 50...

As part of the efforts to raise awareness on the issue of child marriage, Bangladeshi community radios will start communicating a unique campaign from November until December. A total of 17 community radios nationwide will be...

News Hour: Child marriage is a matter of pressing concern for Bangladesh. Although Bangladesh has made considerable progress in several socio-economic indicators, the norm of the marrying of girl child at early ages still persists in...

News Hour: Unless progress is seriously accelerated, it will take over 100 years to end child marriage in West and Central Africa, with far-reaching, life-altering consequences for millions of child brides and crippling impact on the...

As the world marks International Day of the Girl Child on 11 October, Girls Not Brides is calling upon the international community to prioritize investments to end child marriage, stressing that ending the practice is critical...

News Hour: UNICEF welcomes the recommendation issued by the Indonesian Women’s Ulema Congress to end child marriage and to raise the legal marriage age for girls from 16 to 18. The congress of respected female Islamic...

News Hour: An expert consultation on Evidence-Based Strategies for Ending Child Marriage: Why Empowerment Matters was held at BRAC Centre Inn in Dhaka on 10th November. This consultation meeting was chaired by Dr Sajeda Amin, Senior...