Work together to end child marriage: speakers City Desk City Desk
In order to ensure women s empowerment, child marriage needs to be eliminated, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Fazilatunnesa Indira said at a webinar held on Thursday.
The webinar, titled National Webinar on Grassroots Approaches to Prevent Child Marriage , was organised as part of the Shouhardo programme funded by USAID and the government, and implemented by CARE Bangladesh. The objective of the webinar was to disseminate the findings from a study by CARE on child marriage, a press release said.
Speaking as chief guest, Indira also said the government has taken several measures to reduce the prevalence of child marriage.