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Pilot project on loans to prevent child marriage lunched in Bogura
Amal Foundation, a local NGO, has teamed up with IPDC, a leading NBFI, to prevent child marriage. The two firms are the implementers of a pilot project that seeks to prevent child marriage through loa...
Kurigram witnesses significant decline in child marriage
One of the two categories of child marriage has declined significantly in Kurigram, one of the country's poorest districts, over the last five years. The other has also decreased, but not to the desir...
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Growing per capita income contributed to reduce child marriage: Planning Minister
Planning Minister MA Mannan on Tuesday said growing trends of per capita income will help to reduce child marriage in the country.
He said child marriage incident is happening due to various reasons ...
Kurigram sets an example in reducing child marriage: Speakers
Kurigram can be a role model for other districts in bringing down child marriage rate but more coordinated efforts are required from all level of stakeholders, said discussants at a round table disc...
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Zonta Club of Greater Dhaka launches 16-day activism campaign on child marriage, gender-based violence
The Zonta Club of Greater Dhaka has chalked out plans to celebrate 16 Days of Activism campaign from November 25 to December 10 with a goal to globally develop advocacy actions with a focus on prevent...
Rights groups call for increased investment on girl’s education to prevent child marriage
Leaders of different rights groups on Thursday demanded that Bangladesh makes increased investment on education of girls to prevent child marriage and keep retain the kids in schools.
The call came a...
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School closure impact: over 3,000 girls married off in Bagerhat
As the schools in Bangladesh reopened after long Covid-induced shutdown last month, many girls in this coastal district were missing from classrooms with a majority of them lost to early marriages.
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Child marriage was an epidemic within the pandemic in Bangladesh
The period covered by the pandemic has witnessed another epidemic, child marriage, returning to some areas of Bangladesh as educational institutes were closed to contain the spread of the coronavirus....
Child marriage rates soar in Cox's Bazar in the shadow of pandemic
A recent study on the impact of COVID-19 on child marriage in Cox’s Bazar district has uncovered rates of child marriage soared throughout the district since March 2021, with the highest increase of...
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School Closure: 50,000 students may have dropped out in Kurigram
As students across the country are back to classrooms after one of the world's longest Covid closure, many of them missed their peers with officials concerned in Kurigram fearing that at least 50,000 ...