International Journal of
Sociology and Anthropology

  • Abbreviation: Int. J. Sociol. Anthropol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2006-988X
  • DOI: 10.5897/IJSA
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 334

Review

Child marriage in Bangladesh: Socio-legal analysis

Nahid Ferdousi
  • Nahid Ferdousi
  • School of Social Science, Humanities and Language, Bangladesh Open University, Bangladesh.
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  •  Accepted: 14 November 2013
  •  Published: 31 January 2014

References

 

Afroza S (1999). Obstetric Related Residual Morbidities among the Women in Bangladesh. JOPSOM. pp.22-29.
 
Badrud DM (1990). South Asia Study of Population Policy and Programme: Bangladesh. UNFPA pp.ll-12.
 
Kumari, Ved. The Juvenile Justice in India: From Welfare to Rights. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, First Edition, 2004. p.266.
 
Mizanur M (1999). "Female Adolescent Marriage among the Slum Dwellers of Dhaka City". JOPSOM. pp. 6-10.
 
The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929.
 
The Birth and Death Registration Act, 2004.
 
The Children Act, 1974.
 
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948.
 
The Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages, 1964.
 
The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 1990.
 
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), 1989.
 
The Constitution of the People"s Republic of Bangladesh, 1972, Article 145A. This Article was inserted by the Second Proclamation (Fifteen Amendment) Order, 1978 (Second Proclamation Order No. IV of 1978). United Nations Children"s Fund (2001). Early marriage: child spouses. Florence: UNICEF Innocent Research Centre, 2001. (Innocent digest no. 7) p.28.
 
UN Reports (2002). Ad Hoc Committee of Whole of the Twenty-seventh Special of General Assembly, General Assembly, Official Records, Twenty-seven special session Supplement 3:27.