What is Child Labor and Child Labour in Bangladesh?

Child Labour:

Child labour is work that exceeds a minimum number of hours, depending on the age of a child and on the type of work. Such work is considered harmful to the child and should therefore be eliminated.

• Ages 5-11: At least one hour of economic work or 28 hours of domestic work per week.
• Ages 12-14: At least 14 hours of economic work or 28 hours of domestic work per week.
• Ages 15-17: At least 43 hours of economic or domestic work per week.

Child Labour Implemented Brief :

Md. Sofiqul Islam Khan
The Blogger

Child Labour in Bangladesh

  KEY STATISTICS:

Working children, aged 5-17	7.4 million
Working children, aged 5-14	4.7 million
Child labourers (according to definition, below), aged 5-17	3.2 million
Children engaged in hazardous labour, aged 5-17	1.3 million
Child domestic workers1	421,000
Percentage of children (aged 5-14) engaged in child labour (2006)2	National	Slum	Tribal
	12.8	19.1	17.6

1. ¹ International Labour Organisation (ILO), Baseline Survey on Child Domestic Labour in Bangladesh, 2006
2. ² BBS/ UNICEF, Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2006, October 2007
3. All other statistics from Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Report on National Child Labour Survey, 2002-2003

We are passing our life as our require. In our society we live several peoples. But its a mater of pity that a large amount of people in our society are child and women. they are always weak to continue their life. Because they are depended on us who are able and man. Why they must have to depend on us (man)? They have the ability but we sank down them. Its our faults. We should remember.