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'Over 50 child marriages from a school in Tangail'
As the school was closed in March last year amid the outbreak of coronavirus, teachers lost contact with their students for long and failed to stop early marriage of their students
UNICEF calls for schools to reopen in pandemic-hit nations
The United Nations children's agency UNICEF has urged education authorities to reopen schools as soon as possible in countries where millions of students are still not allowed to return to classrooms ...
Bangladesh lags behind goal to prevent child marriage
Child marriage has increased since the outbreak of coronavirus. Experts call for specific measures to be taken to address the issue
Climate change: Adaptation and mitigation go hand in hand
Development partners will work closely with Bangladesh on climate change adaptation
Climate change:
'Children in Bangladesh, 3 other countries at extremely high risk'
Children in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India are among those most at risk of the impacts of climate change, threatening their health, education, and protection, according to a new Unicef ...
World leaders out of excuses on climate change, Thunberg, youth activists say
The world's children cannot afford more empty promises at this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), youth activists including Greta Thunberg said, after a UN report found ...
Afghanistan
Some Taliban support girls’ education: UNICEF
Some Taliban local representatives had said they were waiting for guidance on the issue from their leaders, said Mustapha Ben Messaoud, UNICEF’s chief of field operations in Afghanistan
Tech-savvy youths need to face challenges of the future
Youth makes up two-thirds of Bangladesh’s population. That means Bangladesh presently enjoys a demographic advantage. Youth, the driving force of any society, have the ability to adjust to any ...
Covid-19
Around 23m children deprived of routine vaccination
Nearly 23 million children missed out on routine vaccinations last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the highest number in more than a decade, fuelling outbreaks of measles, polio and other ...
Covid triggered biggest increase in hunger in decades: UN
Although the full impact of the pandemic cannot yet be determined, the UN report estimated around 118 million more people faced hunger in 2020 than in 2019, an increase of 18 per cent
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