Conversations around child marriage all come down to sex: who should have it, when and with whom. Advocates are struggling to agree on all three questions.
Author: SM Shaikat
SM Shaikat is the Executive Director of SERAC-Bangladesh, a youth organization advocating and implementing programs on child marriage and gender based violence prevention in Bangladesh. He was nominated as the Women Deliver Young Leader Country Coordinator for International Youth Alliance for Family Planning, was the founding co-chair of the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition and is an Ambassador for Young Men for Gender Equality and a member of the UN Habitat Youth Advisory Board, the PMNCH Partners Forum Global Organizing Committee and the World Urban Forum Advisory Committee. SM has been a speaker at several UN General Assemblies.