Staff Reporter :
Civil Society activists called upon the authorities concerned to take urgent steps for eradicating child labour from the country’s informal sector in the interest of development.
About 90 percent of the child workers work in the informal sector even in hazardous condition. In the informal sector, workers are not registered and are appointed without due process, they observed.
It is needed to bring the sector under monitoring, because child workers continue to face exploitation and mental and physical health risks in the sector, they said.
If steps are not taken to exclude children from risky works, it would be tough to achieve the government’s target of total elimination of children from risky works by 2021, they added.
It is not possible to make Bangladesh a prosperous country without eliminating child labour.
They passed the remarks while addressing a ‘Dialogue on National Plan of Action (NPA) on Elimination of Child Labour’ at CIRDAP
auditorium in the capital Friday. They called for identifying domestic work and dried fish sectors as hazardous for the children.
They called for making children skilled human resources after recovering them from risky works, and increasing the capacity of children in greater structure under protection with joint initiative of government and the non-governmental sector.
INCIDIN Bangladesh organized the programme supported by Terre des Hommes Netherlands.
Sakeun Nahar Begum, Additional Secretary of Ministry of Labour and Employment, attended as the chief guest. AKM Masud Ali, executive director of INCIDIN Bangladesh, chaired it.
Advocate Salma Ali, Co-Chair, Child Rights Monitoring Committee and Member of National Child Labour Welfare Council, Mahmudul Kabir, Country Director of Terre des Hommes Netherlands, Md. Ruhul Amin, Deputy Secretary of Labour and Employment Ministry, M Robiul Islam, Deputy Director, Focal of Child Rights, National Human Rights Commission Bangladesh, among others, spoke at the function.
Civil Society activists called upon the authorities concerned to take urgent steps for eradicating child labour from the country’s informal sector in the interest of development.
About 90 percent of the child workers work in the informal sector even in hazardous condition. In the informal sector, workers are not registered and are appointed without due process, they observed.
It is needed to bring the sector under monitoring, because child workers continue to face exploitation and mental and physical health risks in the sector, they said.
If steps are not taken to exclude children from risky works, it would be tough to achieve the government’s target of total elimination of children from risky works by 2021, they added.
It is not possible to make Bangladesh a prosperous country without eliminating child labour.
They passed the remarks while addressing a ‘Dialogue on National Plan of Action (NPA) on Elimination of Child Labour’ at CIRDAP
auditorium in the capital Friday. They called for identifying domestic work and dried fish sectors as hazardous for the children.
They called for making children skilled human resources after recovering them from risky works, and increasing the capacity of children in greater structure under protection with joint initiative of government and the non-governmental sector.
INCIDIN Bangladesh organized the programme supported by Terre des Hommes Netherlands.
Sakeun Nahar Begum, Additional Secretary of Ministry of Labour and Employment, attended as the chief guest. AKM Masud Ali, executive director of INCIDIN Bangladesh, chaired it.
Advocate Salma Ali, Co-Chair, Child Rights Monitoring Committee and Member of National Child Labour Welfare Council, Mahmudul Kabir, Country Director of Terre des Hommes Netherlands, Md. Ruhul Amin, Deputy Secretary of Labour and Employment Ministry, M Robiul Islam, Deputy Director, Focal of Child Rights, National Human Rights Commission Bangladesh, among others, spoke at the function.
