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Bangladesh - Stop Child Marriages, Don't Bless Them!

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To Bangladesh Honourable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Bangladesh's international donors:

As global citizens concerned about the high rates of child marriage in Bangladesh, we call on the Bangladesh government and its international donors to ensure that the legal age for marriage in Bangladesh is not lowered from 18 to 16 and the Child Marriage Restraint Act is strengthened and strictly enforced. We urge you to empower different government agencies and NGOs to act together to ensure girls are educated and empowered, and not forced into early marriage.
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Bangladesh - Stop Child Marriages, Don't Bless Them!
Calling themselves the “wedding busters”, a group of incredible children is fighting to stop girls as young as 10 from being married off. Now they’re trying to prevent Bangladesh from lowering the official marriage age to 16, and we can help them.

Two out of three girls under 18 get married off, and last year PM Sheikh Hasina pledged to drastically reduce this. But now her government has come up with the marriage age dodge to make these shameful stats look better, while avoiding real action.

Hasina wants a glowing report card at a UN poverty summit this September, and needs donors to shower more money on her government.

If we raise a million-strong call to key donors like the UN, World Bank and Asian Development Bank to pressure Bangladesh, we can boost the wedding busters and get Sheikh Hasina to save girl brides, not change the law. Add your name now and share widely!

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