India child marriage crackdown reaches 5,000 arrests
A crackdown on illegal child marriages in India鈥檚 northeast has resulted in nearly 5,000 arrests, after 416 people were detained in the latest police sweep, a minister said on Sunday.
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Coordinated efforts stressed to eradicate child marriage
Speakers, including an academic, at a roundtable discussion on Sunday emphasised that coordinated efforts were essential to eliminate child marriage and violence against children nationwide...
Child marriage alone causes 99 per cent cervical cancer
Rajshahi divisional commissioner Dewan Muhammad Humayun Kabir said on Thursday that about 99 per cent women who got married before turning 18 suffered from cervical cancer, a disease that...
Asif urges nationwide sports expansion to end child labour
Youth and sports adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain on Monday said that there was no alternative to expand sports nationwide to eliminate child marriage and child labour...
Fresh perspective needed to end child marriage
ADVOCATES for preventing child marriage, both within the government and in society, are understandably frustrated. Despite the national policy setting 18 as the legal age of marriage for girls, the Child Marriage Restraint Act being passed in 2017, and the adoption...
Bangladesh requires 215 years to eliminate child marriage: UNFPA
The country will require 215 years to eliminate child marriage as per the current rate of reduction of child marriage in the country, said the United Nations Population Fund...