Child labor in Bangladesh
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International Labour Organization
The International Labour Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that deals with labour issues pertaining to international labour standards. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. Its secretariat — the people who are employed by it throughout the world — is known as the...
(ILO), and the ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention
The Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, known in short as the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, was adopted by the International Labour Organization in 1999 as ILO Convention No 182. It is one of 8 ILO fundamental...
(C182). In addition, the country also ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Convention on the Rights of the Child
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is a human rights treaty setting out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children...
.
Nevertheless, child labor exists in Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
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
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, IPEC - IREWOC - Institute for Research on Working Children
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International conventions and other instruments:
- Pilot project on Delivery of water to households far from sources of safe waterPilot project on Delivery of water to households far from sources of safe waterThe South African Child Labour Programme of Action provides that pilot projects should be run on the Delivery of water to households far from sources of safe water. The Survey of Activities of Young People undertaken in 1999 indicated that collecting fuel or fetching water are by far the most...
- Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999The Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, known in short as the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, was adopted by the International Labour Organization in 1999 as ILO Convention No 182. It is one of 8 ILO fundamental...
External links
- International Research on Child Labour
- Bonilla, Fernando. Child labour: a vulnerability profile.
- http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id3633731164.html