{"id":946,"date":"2017-03-08T16:43:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T16:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=946"},"modified":"2020-02-19T15:33:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T15:33:06","slug":"bangladeshs-new-child-marriage-law-swings-in-the-wrong-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2017\/03\/08\/bangladeshs-new-child-marriage-law-swings-in-the-wrong-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh&#8217;s new child marriage law swings in the wrong direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report\u00a0by the School&#8217;s Dr Zaki Wahhaj\u00a0and Dr M Niaz Asadullah from the\u00a0University of Malaya has been published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/bangladeshs-new-child-marriage-law-swings-in-the-wrong-direction-72282\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> on Bangladesh&#8217;s new child marriage law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to UNICEF, Bangladesh has the highest rate of marriage in the world among girls under 15. And it is ranked eighth in terms of marriage under the age of 18.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/V9ZT309IavM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/ow.ly\/V9ZT309IavM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report\u00a0by the School&#8217;s Dr Zaki Wahhaj\u00a0and Dr M Niaz Asadullah from the\u00a0University of Malaya has been published in The Conversation on Bangladesh&#8217;s new child &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2017\/03\/08\/bangladeshs-new-child-marriage-law-swings-in-the-wrong-direction\/\">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":[223908,14,94130,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946"}],"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=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/1818"}],"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=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}