"June 2015"--Table of contents page. "This report was written by Heather Barr, senior researcher on women's rights, based on research she conducted"--Page 129. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Summary -- Key Recommendations -- Methodology -- I. How Girls Become Brides: Contributing Factors to Child Marriage -- II. Harmful Consequences of Child Marriage -- III. Bangladesh Government Responses to Child Marriage -- IV. Bangladesh's International Legal Obligations -- Recommendations -- Acknowledgements -- Annex 1. Letter to Bangladesh Government Presenting Human Rights Watch Research Findings on Child Marriage in Bangladesh.
Summary:
"Bangladesh has the highest rate in the world of child marriage of girls under the age of 15 and the fourth-highest overall rate in the world. In the period 2005 to 2013, 65 percent of girls in Bangladesh married before age 18. 'Marry Before Your House is Swept Away' is based on over a hundred interviews, most of them with married girls, some as young as age 10 and documents factors driving child marriage in Bangladesh, including poverty exacerbated by natural disasters, lack of access to education, social pressure, harassment, and dowry. The report also describes failure by the Bangladesh government to take adequate steps to prevent child marriage. In 2014, Bangladesh's prime minister vowed to end child marriage. Awareness is growing among the population that marriage of girls under age 18 is illegal under Bangladeshi law. But this awareness is undermined by widespread complicity by local government officials in facilitating child marriages. Married girls are deprived of education, face serious health risks due to early pregnancy, and are at heightened risk for violence and abuse in the home compared to those who marry later as adults. Bangladesh's vulnerability to natural disasters adds additional hardship that increases the risk of child marriage for many girls. The report calls on the Bangladesh government to step up efforts to prevent child marriage by reforming the Child Marriage Restraint Act, investigating and prosecuting crimes under the act, and ensuring and holding to account officials who fail to enforce the ban on child marriage. International donors should integrate strategies to prevent child marriage into assistance programs"-- Page [4] of cover.
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