Child labour in Bangladesh

Bangladesh ratified both the Minimum Age Convention (C138) of the International Labour Organization (ILO), and the ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (C182). In addition, the country also ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Nevertheless, child labor exists in Bangladesh both in rural and urban areas. There are many causes behind child labor:

• Poverty
• Illiteracy
• Family breakups
• Lack of knowledge by parents about education

See also

• Child soldiers
• Child prostitution
• Children's rights movement
• Children in cocoa production
• Firestone Liberian controversy
• Guaranteed minimum income
• International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, IPEC
• IREWOC - Institute for Research on Working Children
• Legal working age
• Multinational corporation
• Street children
• Wage Slavery
• Youth activism
• London matchgirls strike of 1888
• The Newsboys Strike of 1899

International conventions and other instruments:

• Pilot project on Delivery of water to households far from sources of safe water
• Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999

External links

• International Research on Child Labour
• Bonilla, Fernando. Child labour: a vulnerability profile.
• http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id3633731164.html