This document discusses child labor and its impacts. It notes that child labor refers to work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with schooling, and is physically or psychologically harmful. Many international organizations consider it exploitative. Child labor exposes children to long hours, low wages, poor conditions, and health and safety hazards. More than 200 million children worldwide are child laborers, including 73 million under age 10, most in Africa and Asia working in agriculture and manufacturing. In Bangladesh, most child laborers work informally in small factories, workshops, domestic work, and home-based businesses, though some work formally in the garment industry. While Bangladeshi law sets the minimum employment age at 14, child labor is difficult to

2. Kazi Shamema Islam
Assistant Professor
Dept. Of English
Bangladesh University of Business and
Technology

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6.  Child labor refers to the employment of
children in any work that
 deprives their childhood,
 interferes with their ability to attend regular
school,
 and that is mentally, physically, socially or
morally dangerous and harmful.
 This practice is considered exploitative by
many international organizations

8.  Long hours work, low or no wages, poor food,
isolation and hazards in the working
environment can severely affect children’s
physical and mental health.
 Child laborers are also vulnerable to racial
discrimination, mistreatment and also loose
their life in some cases.
 Some work, such as domestic labour, is
commonly regarded as an acceptable
employment option for children, even though
it too poses considerable risks.

10.  More than 200 million children today are child
laborers. An estimated 120 million are engaged in
hazardous work.
 73 million of these children are below 10 years old.
 The highest number of child laborers is in sub-
Saharan Africa.
 Most children work on farms that produce
consumer products such as cocoa, coffee, cotton,
rubber and other crops.
 20 million child workers are employed in factories
that make garments, carpets, toys, matches and
hand-rolled cigarettes.

12.  Informal Sector
Most child laborers in Bangladesh are employed
in the informal sector. These are
 Small factories
 Workshops
 On the street
 Home-based businesses
 Domestic employment / service
 Formal sector
The garment industry is the largest employer of
child labor in the formal sector

14.  According to the Labour Law of Bangladesh
2006, the minimum legal age for employment is
14.
 However, as 93 per cent of child labourers
work in the informal sector
 These forms of labour are hard to regulate and
monitor.
 So the enforcement of labour laws is virtually
impossible.

16. Child labor is a curse to the Bangladesh. Along
with the government we also have to know about
our responsibilities and should take corrective
measures to stop child labor so that we can have a
better and developed Bangladesh