Bangladesh

This app could end child marriage in Bangladesh

Girls play in front of torn election campaign posters ahead of Sunday's elections in Dhaka January 4, 2014. Nearly 60 polling stations in Bangladesh were set on fire and three people were killed on the eve of Sunday's election in which the ruling Awami League looks certain to prevail in a walkover as the main opposition party boycotts the poll. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj (BANGLADESH - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS SOCIETY)

The app stopped 3,750 underage marriages during a six-month trial. Image: REUTERS/Andrew Biraj

Annie Banerji
South Asia Corrospondent, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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