Also, additional interviews for female minors intended for combat positions were added.

So far Bangladesh ranks below other South Asian countries in terms of child marriage. This amendment to the child marriage law will push Bangladesh far below.

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Overall, the Service has treated 17,000 female minors in 2004.

According to a government survey, more than half of the child marriages in Bangladesh happen with the insistence of the parents.

The State Comptroller found that female minors undergo a partial examination prior to their assignment to combat duties.

The major rehabilitation program for female minors is the Service for female minors in Distress of the Ministry of Social Affairs.

It's known for a lot of wonderful things, but it's also quite known for female illiteracy, child marriages, and so on.

When there is development in society, social security ensured, the rate of literacy increased, child marriages will fall.

A lot of child brides, like Zahra, fall into marriage as barter in baad debt settling agreements.

This is illustrated by the absence of criminal charges against those who marry under age girls in all regions of the country.

Current figures indicate that 10 12 of the female minors in the care of the Service for Women and female minors of the Ministry of Social Affairs engage in prostitution, (approximately 45 female minors).

Cases documented by women's organizations indicate that approximately 72 per cent of the rape victims are minors.

A lot of debates are happening in the country about this exception. There are fears it will legitimise statutory rape and encourage the practice of child marriage.

However, because of economic difficulties and the negligible number of minor girls serving sentences at present, they are being kept with adults in the women's correctional labour colony, but in a separate section.

The Penal Code also criminalizes certain forms of violence to which women and girls are subjected, in particular rape and the kidnapping of minors.

Some of the factors that drive children marriage include poverty, a desire to keep girls safe, and a lack of education allowing self sufficiency.

The main reason for child marriage in Bangladesh is societal pressure. The parents deem girls as liabilities, so many do not receive proper education.

The fact that the rate of child marriage is still high despite these other achievements is unfortunate, and a question that needs to be answered.

You cannot understand the reality fully sitting in the capital. Civil society easily can see child marriage but is blind to the fact why it happens.

On November 24, 2016, the controversial Child Marriage Restraint Act 2016 was given a nod of approval by the cabinet of Bangladesh.

The service treats female minors aged 13 21 in the Jewish sector, and up to age 25 in the Arab sector.

Ms. Morvai said that she had been concerned to read in the report that Lebanon treated prostitutes, even minors, as criminals, without any mention of punishment for their clients.

The victims are mainly female minors, some as young as two, but also young boys.

The Knesset Research and Information Center, in a survey held at the end of June 2004, estimated that hundreds of female minors annually marry in Israel.

Another unknown number of female minors, estimated at hundreds by the inter ministerial and inter organizational committee examining this issue, have been exposed to various types of commercial sexual exploitation.

Some expressed concern that only rape of minors below the age of 14 was penalized very strictly, considering that aged and disabled women were equally vulnerable.

In the penitentiary system of the Republic of Tajikistan, articles 412 sic note 10 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and articles 63 and 78 of the Penal Enforcement Code stipulate that men and women will be kept separately in correctional labour facilities. Convicted minor girls must be kept separate from adults.

Many activities have been undertaken within the health sector regarding the prevention of sexual exploitation of women and minor girls with the aim of enhancing the health care and protection against risks of prostitution on the health and strengthening protection, rehabilitation and social re integration of commercial sexual female workers (CSFW).

When you make the special provision that minor girls can be married off before 18 with the consent of her parents, you ignore the fact that many parents feel that their children are a liability. Many girls are forced into arranged marriages by their parents, without their consent or choice.

As for the concern over underage girls being used as domestic labour, the delegation had not been trying to justify the use of children as domestic labour but to explain the attitude of the rural families, who would rather see their daughter living in a good family than out on the streets of the town.