Dhaka, Oct. 13 -- With child marriage still affecting one in every two girls in Bangladesh (51%), the government is stepping up efforts to reverse this trend.

At the current slow pace of a 2% annual decline, it would take two centuries to end the practice.

Determined to accelerate progress, the government of Bangladesh has convened a high-level Inter-Ministerial Dialogue to define a unified roadmap for ending child marriage once and for all.

The dialogue, led by the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (MOWCA), the Department of Women Affairs (DWA), and supported by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), brought together Secretaries and senior officials from the Ministries of Education, Law and Justice, Information and Broadcast...