Child labor in Bangladesh

In the world of work used by 165 million children aged 5 to 14 years, of which 74 million are engaged in work that could be dangerous. Compared with other continents, child labor is most actively used in Asian countries. Despite the fact that over the past six years the number of minors who work here fell by nearly 5 million people, yet 122 million children and adolescents aged 5 to 14 years engaged in commerce or in the workplace. Among the “leaders” in the use of child labor appear on such countries as Nepal, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

1) Extreme poverty and economic difficulties are forcing Bangladeshi children to seek work to help their families. (REUTERS PICTURES)

2) According to the report of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 33 million children under 18 living in Bangladesh, representing about 56 percent of the child population, currently live below the international poverty line, defined as income of U.S. $ 1 per person day. (REUTERS PICTURES)

3) On the picture – underage workers brickworks spread bricks for drying. Bricks are made by hand here. (REUTERS PICTURES)

4) The total population of Bangladesh is 140 million, 63 million, or 44 percent of the total population are children. In the picture – children work in the shop for balloons in Kamrangir Chara on the outskirts of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. (REUTERS PICTURES)

5) Bangladesh – a country where child labor is used more than anywhere else. In Bangladesh, among children aged ten to fourteen years elapsed operate 30,1%. (REUTERS PICTURES)

6) Children often during the holidays, and sometimes skipping classes during the school year, do the dirty and hard work. (REUTERS PICTURES)

7) Some of the children are forced to leave school to continue to work and help their families cope with poverty. In the picture – the production of bricks. (REUTERS PICTURES)

The exploitation of child labor in most cases due to the fact that even those parents who wish to send their children to school, often can not afford it. (REUTERS PICTURES) 9) As a result, children are sent to work in fields, factories and even in the mines. (REUTERS PICTURES)

9) Almost 50 percent of primary schools in Bangladesh to drop out of school before the end of grade 5. (REUTERS PICTURES)

10) Such high rates due to low quality of public primary education, low levels of adult literacy, low awareness of the importance of education.

11) As a result, child labor in Bangladesh is more than 12 percent of the total labor force.

12) Approximately 25 children, worked at the factory aluminum products in Dhaka. (REUTERS PICTURES)

13) They work 12 hours a day and receive for their work 60 taka ($ 1.70) per day. (REUTERS PICTURES)

14) In Bangldadesh society as a whole because of the prevailing tradition is rather indifferent attitude to the problem of child labor. (

15) Millions of children are deprived of their childhood Aziii (REUTERS PICTURES)

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