RAJOURI : On the directions of District Development Commissioner, Rajouri Vikas Kundal, District Hub for Empowerment of Women (DHEW), under Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India today organised two awareness programmes
DHAKA: Bangladesh will overhaul its school curriculum and introduce a new subject covering reproductive health as the country addresses its biggest surge in child marriage in more than two decades, top education officials have said. Although the legal age for marriage in Bangladesh is 18 for women and 21 for men, the nation has the highest rate of child marriage in South Asia.
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.