Human Rights
Protection and dignity for the most vulnerable, including refugees.
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Half of Bangladeshi women still marry as children
Bangladesh has cut child marriage from nearly three in four young women in the 1990s to under half today — but it still has the highest rate in South Asia, and progress is far too slow to meet the country's own targets.
1.78 million Bangladeshi children are in child labour — about as many as a decade ago
The 2022 National Child Labour Survey counted 3.54 million working children aged 5–17. 1.78 million were in child labour and 1.07 million in hazardous work, down from 1.28 million in 2013.
More than four in ten young children in Bangladesh have no birth registration
Birth registration of children under five rose from 10% in 2006 to 56% in the 2019 household survey — but 44% still had no legal proof of who they are.
Bangladesh now hosts more than a million refugees
The number of refugees in Bangladesh — almost all Rohingya from Myanmar — jumped from about 276,000 in 2016 to over 930,000 in 2017 and reached 1.18 million in 2025.