Child labour

Workshop insists conclusion of child labour by 2025
Corporates

Workshop insists conclusion of child labour by 2025

Md Ehsan-E-Elahi, secretary of the Labour and Employment Ministry who was the chief guest at the workshop

Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

Bangladesh lacks child labour data

A boy sorts clothes as he waits for customers at his stall on a street in Sanaa, Yemen July 5, 2021. Picture taken July 5, 2021. REUTERS/Nusaibah Almuaalemi
Middle East

Yemen's children toil at dangerous work, not school

Even newspapers of international repute like the New York Times linked the recent fire incident of Shajeeb Group (a beverage company serving the local market) with the readymade garment industry. Photo: Reuters
Crime

Child labour was commonplace at Shezan Juice factory

Govt-NGOs coordination stressed for elimination of child labour 
Bangladesh

Govt-NGOs coordination stressed for elimination of child labour 

Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

'Bangladesh must keep fight against child labour at top of agenda'

There is a demand from the international community that Bangladesh sign up to the convention and does not allow under-aged people to get into employment. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed
World+Biz

Child labour swells for first time in two decades: UN

Photo: Unicef.
Bangladesh

6 more sectors declared free of child labour

A photo of International Labour Organizations flag (ILO) Photo: Collected
World+Biz

ILO launching the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour

FILE PHOTO: Carlsberg beer cans are seen at a pub in Mumbai, India, October 20, 2018. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo
South Asia

Carlsberg India probes find 'potential improper payments', child labour

To tackle the economic crisis in Covid-19, many children are force into child labour, where usually these children are made to work on a "no work, no pay" basis. Photo: Unicef.
Thoughts

Putting an end to child labour in South Asia

Photo: Unicef.
Economy

Govt determined to make Bangladesh free from child labour to achieve SDGs: Secy

Kailash Satyarthi, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, takes part in a panel in New York, September 27, 2015. Photo: Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

India's Nobel laureate fears upsurge in child labour as pandemic shrivels economy