Bangladeshi cricketer Sanjida Islam poses as a bride with a cricket bat, a day before her wedding day in Rangpur, Bangladesh, Friday, Oct. 16. (Sobhana Mostary via AP) DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Sanjida ...

DHAKA/NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new Bangladeshi law that lets under-age girls marry their rapists for "the greater good of the adolescent" may put more children at risk of sexual ...

DHAKA — Bangladesh’s top court has ruled that women no longer need to declare if they are virgins on marriage certificates after a five-year legal battle by women’s rights groups trying to protect ...

On 25 August 2019, a High Court in Bangladesh ordered the country's government to replace the word kumari’(virgin) with obibahito (unmarried) on marriage certificates. The verdict came after a ...

When teenager Roxana Parveen overheard her parents discussing her marriage prospects one night last year the first thing she thought of was how miserable her friends were who had both been married off ...

On her wedding day, 15-year-old Nasoin Akhter looked “melancholic,” according to photographer Allison Joyce, who documented the teenage girl’s wedding to her 32-year-old husband, Mohammad Hasamur ...

A wedding is considered the most important event of a Bangladeshi girl's life and an integral part of the local culture. Nirjona describes a typical wedding: (A) Bangladesh wedding is a huge ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Sanjida Islam went into bat for a special cricket match in Bangladesh. The 24-year-old international cricketer wore her colorful wedding attire as she played a few shots and ...

A homeless child sleeps on a footpath on a foggy winter day in Dhaka in this 2011 archive photo. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj DHAKA/NEW DELHI, March 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new Bangladeshi law that ...