City Desk :
Speakers at a daylong advocacy workshop called for freeing the society from the curse of child marriage that shatters life of the premature girls and creates barriers for their education and normal growth.
To achieve the goal, they called for launching vigorous social movement involving every conscious citizen to eradicate child marriage, dowry, polygamy and all sorts of repressions and violence against women from the society.
Bangladesh Advance Students for Interrelation Council (BASIC) organised the advocacy workshop on ‘Child Marriage’ at Betdighee union parishad hall room under Fulbari upazila of Dinajpur on Thursday.
Fulbari Area Development Programme (ADP) of World Vision Bangladesh (WVB) extended cooperation in arranging the workshop participated by 20 marriage registrars, matchmakers, Imams, Purohits, teachers, union members and local community leaders.
Chairman of Betdighee union parishad Shah Mohammad Abdul Kuddus attended the workshop as the chief guest with female member from reserved ward of the same union Rukhsana Begum Shilpi in the chair.
Executive Director of BASIC Shyamol Chandra Sarker attended and addressed the workshop as the special guest.
Members of the union parishad Dulali Begum, Abdul Mannan, Abul Kalam, Mossarraf Hossain and Ekramul Haque, Matchmaker Mozaffar Hossain also addressed the workshop moderated by Filed Organiser of BASIC Chiranjeet Roy.
The speakers blamed discriminatory attitude towards female children, superstitions, religious misinterpretations, illiteracy, dowry, poverty and lack of social awareness as the main reasons behind child marriage.
They said early marriage leads the adolescents to shattered and catastrophic lives destroying their future and increasing neonatal, maternal and children deaths and unrest in family lives in the backward rural areas.
They stressed for a better, healthier and more peaceful society by launching vigorous movement involving people from all walks of life to create social renaissance against the decades-old curse that has engulfed the backward rural people.
The chief guest urged all concerned for working together in ensuring marriage registration with affidavits and checking national identity cards to make Betdighee union free from child marriage, dowry, polygamy and violence against women.
