Talitha Kum Bangladesh is empowering religious sisters and youth communities in the South Asian country to fight against human trafficking, child marriage and forced marriage with its new training ...

DHAKA, Oct 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bangladesh must do more to tackle child marriage if it is to meet its own goal of eliminating the crime by 2041, according to a United Nations report ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) also called on the government to ditch a proposal to lower the legal marriage age for girls from 18 to 16, which it said undermined the prime minister's recent pledge to end ...

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Millions of girls are at risk if the Bangladeshi government goes ahead with a proposal to lower the age of marriage to 16, Human Rights Watch warned on Monday.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of As Equals, CNN’s ongoing series on gender inequality. For information about how the series is funded and more, check out our FAQs. Since 17-year-old Rehana was a ...

Amid rising reports of cross-border marriage scams and trafficking, the Chinese Embassy in Bangladesh has issued a sharp advisory to its citizens, warning them to avoid illegal matchmaking, reject the ...

Somewhere between the headline and the comment section, Bangladeshi women were recently told a right had been snatched away. Apparently, overnight, the courts decided wives no longer mattered, consent ...

The Chinese Embassy in Bangladesh has warned its citizens not to get involved in illegal cross-border marriages or fall for online matchmaking scams. According to a report by Global Times, a Chinese ...