In this April 17, 2017 photograph, a child bride, who is only fourteen years old, right, performs rituals with the groom after getting married at a Hindu temple near Rajgarh, Madhya Pradesh state, India. A significant fall in child marriages in South Asia has reduced the rate of marriage for girls globally, the U.N. children's agency said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Prakash Hatvalne)
LONDON: A new phone app could be a “game-changer” in the fight against child marriage in Bangladesh, where more than half of all girls are married before they are 18, children’s charity Plan International said.
The impoverished South Asian nation has one of the world’s highest rates of child marriage, according to UNICEF, despite laws that ban girls under 18 and men under 21 from marrying.
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