Tag: Child Marriage

Reports of classrooms empty of girls in the ninth and tenth grades are coming from all over Bangladesh. This is an opinion piece authored by Shaheen Anam, Executive Director of Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF). Shorolika Parveen from Kurigram dreamt of playing in the national football team someday and had even received a best player award […]

Child labour and child marriages have surged in Bangladesh amid the pandemic, found a recent study by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) – unravelling the decades of progress made on bringing down the two social ills. Between April and October 2020, at least 13,886 girls between the ages of 10 to 17 were forced into child […]

In Bangladesh, 51% of women who are currently aged 20-24 were married while they were still children, according to UNICEF. Around 6,500 female high school students in Rajshahi were married-off in the district during the last 18 months when schools were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There are 103,407 female high school students in […]

The National Parliament speaker of Bangladesh Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury last week said the parliament members should play important role while encouraging girls’ education as the preventive to child marriage in the country. She made the observation while virtually addressing a consultation workshop on ‘Prevention of child marriage and gender based violence and ensuring reproductive healthcare’, […]