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Nearly 121 million pregnancies globally are unintended, among which 60 percent end up in abortion. In Bangladesh, around 59 out of each 1,000 pregnancies are unintended, reveals a report.
‘Child marriage reached unaceptable levels during the pandemic’
Says MJF Executive Director Shaheen Anam Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
Although the government is committed to stopping child marriage, during the Covid-19 period, when so many of the support systems were not working, number of child marriages increased at unacceptable levels, said Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) Executive Director Shaheen Anam, after findings of a study was revealed yesterday.
A quick assessment report of Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) yesterday revealed that at least 13,886 girls from 84 upazilas of 21 districts were forced into child marriages from April to October last year, 48 percent of whom were aged between 13 and 15 years.
Staying defiant in the face of disaster
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In May 2020, residents of the coastal districts of Bangladesh suffered enormous damage due to the super cyclone Amphan. The natural disaster affected 2.6 million people in 19 districts across Bangladesh, inundating their houses, killing their livestock and forcing them to flee. Like any large-scale disaster, cyclone Amphan was particularly harmful to the most vulnerable groups of the population, such as women and adolescent girls. It deprived them from their usual safety spaces, increasing their vulnerabilities to gender-based violence and hygiene-related challenges.
By July, UNFPA and its partner agencies and implementing partners launched a life-saving emergency relief programme to address the needs of over 200,000 women and adolescent girls living in the four most severely affected districts: Satkhira, Khulna, Barguna and Patuakhali. The project, funded by the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) stood on four main pillar