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CHILD-MARRIAGE
‘Child marriage prevention must for attaining SDGs’
RANGPUR, Sept 28, 2019 (BSS) – Prevention of child marriage has become a
must to promote female education to ensure their equal rights for attaining
the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
The views were expressed this afternoon at a view-exchange meeting on
“Prevention of Child Marriage” held at Begum Rokeya auditorium of RDRS
Bangladesh in the city.
The district administration and Department of Women Affairs in cooperation
with RDRS Bangladesh and Plan International Bangladesh organized the meeting.
Around 200 participants like officials of government and non-governmental
offices and organisations, public representatives, marriage registrars,
Imams, civil society members, women rights activists and professionals
attended the event.
With Director (Filed Operations) of RDRS Bangladesh Humayun Khaled in the
chair, Deputy Commissioner Md. Asib Ahsan attended the meeting as the chief
guest. Deputy Director of the District Department of Women Affairs Kawser
Pervin, Special Public Prosecutor to the Women and Children Repression
Prevention Tribunal-1 of Rangpur Advocate Rafique Hasnine, Senior Manager
(Women Rights Unit) of RDRS Bangladesh Mezbahun Nahar, addressed as special
guests.
The chief guest urged the participants to play leading roles in preventing
child marriage to build a better society free from all sorts of social
curses, repressions and violence against women.
“Marriage registrars, Imams, union parisahd chairmen and members can
effectively prevent child marriage properly checking smart national identity
cards and birth registration documents,” he said.
Mezbahun Nahar highlighted the present situation of child marriage of
premature girls saying that the social curse shatters life of teenage girls
hindering their education.
“Early marriage leads teenage girls towards catastrophic lives destroying
their mental and physical health and future along with causing neonatal and
maternal deaths in many rural areas of the district,” Nahar added.
Advocate Hasnine stressed on creating social awareness for proper
implementation of the Child Marriage Restraint Act 2017 involving
adolescents, youths, government and NGO officials, public representatives,
religious leaders and marriage registrars.
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