When you think about child labour in Bangladesh, your mind might first drift to the sights of children toiling in construction sites without any safety precaution, inhaling toxic fumes in welding ...

Switzerland is ending its bilateral development activities in Bangladesh after more than 50 years. This could complicate an ...

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international ...

Bangladesh has the highest child marriage rate in Asia and ranks 8th globally, with 51.4 percent of women aged 20-24 married before they turned 18, according to a Unicef report released on ...

Dhaka: Bangladesh still faces significant challenges, including high rates of child marriage, gender inequality, violence, and limited opportunities for girls, according to a recent global report.

Serious attention needs to be paid to adolescent girls in Bangladesh, who still grapple with persistent inequalities, violence, child marriage, a lack of education and limited opportunities, said a ...

A new global report, "Girl Goals: What has changed for girls? Adolescent girls’ rights over 30 years," released on Saturday by Unicef, UN Women, and Plan International to mark the International ...

Instead of attending school, millions of children are exploited in forced labor. But education itself can be a key solution ...

After battling for six days between life and death, the eight-year-old girl, who was raped and subjected to an attempted ...

As his first major move, new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney confers the Order of Canada on Donald Trump for “surpassing ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide information to the Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights on ...

The report calls for urgent action: amplifying girls’ voices, closing skill gaps, and tackling child marriage. In Bangladesh, the three agencies are working with the government to empower girls, but ...