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

The Daily Star report that around 2,500 students have dropped out of school in the last three years in Bogra's Dhunat upazilla, due to extreme poverty and child 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?

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.

The government of Bangladesh is presently contemplating a move that would permit girls to marry at 16 with parental consent and/or approval from courts.