RAJSHAHI, Feb 16 (BSS): Integrated efforts of both senior and junior citizens can be the best ways of ending child marriage for the sake of protecting maternal and neonatal health everywhere in the society.
Simultaneously, all the government and non-government organizations concerned and the community as a whole should come forward and work together to combat child marriage and child pregnancy as it's the precondition for improvement of child and maternal health.
The views were expres-sed at a district level consultation meeting on preventing child marriage by government officials, development activists and leaders of influence at conference hall of Deputy Commissioner (DC) here on Wednesday.
Association for Community Development (ACD), a rights-based development entity, organized the meeting under its project titled "Ending Child Marriage through Adolescents Voice and Stakeholders Responsiveness" supported by UNICEF.
DC Abdul Jalil addressed the meeting as chief guest, while Additional Deputy Commissioner Kalyan Chowdhury was in the chair and ACD Executive Director Salima Sarwar welcomed the participants.
Prof Prodip Kumar Pandey from the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism in Rajshahi University gave an illustration on the child marriage situation in the region and the country as well during his keynote paper presentation.
Joint efforts needed to end child marriage
FE Team | Published: February 16, 2022 21:37:48
Joint efforts needed to end child marriage
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