The 77-year-old Italian Xaverian missionary has made it his life’s work to empower the Munda Indigenous community in coastal ...

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 ...

FOR more than 50 years, Fr Luigi Paggi has lived and worked among some of Bangladesh’s most marginalised people, building schools, teaching girls, and waging a quiet war against a practice that has ...

Dhaka, Oct. 13 -- With child marriage still affecting one in every two girls in Bangladesh (51%), the government is stepping up efforts to reverse this trend. At the current slow pace of a 2% annual ...

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 ...

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 ...