child labour
World Day against Child Labour 2024 / Ending child labour needs decisive interventions
Despite government initiatives, child labour is still a common practice especially in the rural region of Bangladesh.
How can we deal with children dropping out of school?
The problem of children dropping out of school and working have far-reaching implications for the overall development of a country.
Bring child labourers back to school
Social issues behind child labour must be addressed
Essay / Feeding desperation
Dickens, a literary luminary of his era, exposes the vicious cycle where hunger and desperation divide society, laying bare the inequities perpetuated by an exploitative system.
Lost childhood, wasted potential: We must put an end to child labour
The issue of child labour in Bangladesh is complex and deeply entrenched, but it is not insurmountable.
Child labour rises by 4.5pc in a decade
The National Child Labour Survey 2022 finds
Kicking a football is no crime
Why are children still subjected to random violence and abuse?
World Day Against Child Labour / Shedding light on child labour in educational institutions
It is disheartening to find underprivileged children working menial jobs on university campuses across the country.
Childhood trapped in ‘leguna’
“This is Mohammadpur, get off,” a child yelled out to the passengers of a leguna, otherwise known as human hauliers, which had reached the area as early as 7:00am.
Elimination of child labour
While we can take comfort from the fact that we have been able to reduce the number of child workers by two million in the last 10 years, a large number of children are still employed in hazardous work.
And what of the dignity of the child?
The Child Bill 2013 is supposed to be in harmony with the CRC and recognises that an individual below 18 is a child. Why then do we still have child marriages? Why then do we have little children working in homes, in biri factories, in garbage dumps and tanneries?
Children and Poverty
Protecting the rights of children and providing the essentials for their development must be part of the definition of poverty reduction.
Education to fight against child labour
The United Nations has announced it is marking the 2015 edition of the World Day Against Child Labour with a call for the international community to invest in quality education as a key step in the fight against child employment – a scourge that consumes over one hundred million children worldwide.
Child Labour Day
Underage children working in developing countries has been a harsh reality for many years and Bangladesh is no exception.
India will need 100 years to end child labour: Report
With child labour decreasing at a dismal rate of only 2.2 per cent per year; it would take more than a century to end the menace, says a report.
Central African Republic militias to free child soldiers
UN says armed groups in Central African Republic agrees to release all the children working with them and end child recruitment
May Day: A day in the life of a restaurant worker
Employees at different hotels and restaurants in Pabna are forced to work 12 to 15 hours a day. And despite this long hours of work, they are poorly paid.