{"id":810,"date":"2016-04-07T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=810"},"modified":"2020-02-19T15:33:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T15:33:52","slug":"what-is-driving-the-increase-in-child-marriage-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2016\/04\/07\/what-is-driving-the-increase-in-child-marriage-in-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"What is driving the increase in child marriage in Bangladesh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Child marriage is a global problem affecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pub-pdf\/MarryingTooYoung.pdf\">15 million girls<\/a> every year. The practice severely\u00a0limits their life choices, and there is a growing consensus within the international community that it has far-reaching consequences for the girls, their families and their communities. \u00a0In 2014 the United Nations General Assembly passed a <a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/children-un-rights-idINKCN0J52F420141121\">resolution<\/a> asking all member states to pass and enforce laws banning child marriages. \u00a0Some members have responded promptly to the call by adopting new laws to bring an end to child marriage.<\/p>\n<p>This is the opening paragraph of an article published by the School&#8217;s Dr Zaki Wahhaj and his co-author, Dr Niaz Asadullah in <em>Open Democracy<\/em>.\u00a0 You can read the article in its\u00a0entirety <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/5050\/m-niaz-asadullah-and-zaki-wahhaj\/bangladesh-debating-child-marriage-law-and-patriarchal-traditi\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child marriage is a global problem affecting 15 million girls every year. The practice severely\u00a0limits their life choices, and there is a growing consensus within &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2016\/04\/07\/what-is-driving-the-increase-in-child-marriage-in-bangladesh\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37654,"featured_media":1927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[223908,14,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}