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Thirteen days after Dipu Das was lynched, his toddler keeps calling out for him as political violence and minority attacks ...

A controversial child marriage law in Bangladesh which allows children as young as 14 to be married off by their parents was criticised by rights groups Tuesday. Parliament passed the Child Marriage ...

Dhaka, Bangladesh, 6 December 2023 — A recent assessment by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) reveals a dramatic increase in child marriage within Bangladesh's highly disaster-prone and climate ...

Three years ago, when the Jamuna River wiped away their home for the fifth time, Momin Ullah and Rahima Begum could see only one option to reduce the family’s burden of poverty and to secure the ...

Since its founding two years ago, Efforts in Youth Development in Bangladesh (EYDB) has raised approximately $20,000 to fight poverty and child labor. Rising high school senior Jahin Rahman near her ...

She’s known as “Happy” but when Mahfuza Akhter was found bruised and crying in the streets of Dhaka she was anything but. The 11-year-old former live-in maid of one of Bangladesh’s cricketing heroes ...

“Before the house is swept away you should get her married,” a neighbor said to Khushi’s mother. Khushi (not her real name) had recently left school because her family could not afford to pay for ...

DHAKA/NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new Bangladeshi law that lets under-age girls marry their rapists for "the greater good of the adolescent" may put more children at risk of sexual ...

As that nation turns 50, its surprising success offers lessons about investing in the most marginalized. By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist One of the great moral stains on the United States is ...