UK minister urges youths to change status of girls

Junior British minister for international development Lynne Featherstone has asked Bangladeshi youths to campaign for a change in the condition of girls.
“You young people are the change-makers,” she said Monday at the first Girl Summit in Dhaka.
Featherstone, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, is visiting Dhaka to see for herself the steps being taken to end child marriage and prevent violence against women and girls.
Her visit follows the London Girl Summit in July in which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina vowed to end child and forced marriage.
Bangladesh has the highest child marriage rate in South Asia - 65 per cent, the fourth highest in the world, according to a news agency.
State Minister for women and children’s affairs Meher Afroze Chumki termed it “unfortunate” that despite progress in many areas, “we are lagging behind in preventing child marriage”.