This presentation summarizes child labor laws in Bangladesh. It finds that 21.2% of children ages 5-14 work, many in hazardous conditions violating minimum age and safety standards. The causes of child labor include poverty, family size, illiteracy, and natural disasters. The presentation analyzes data on the types of work, ages, incomes, and education levels of child laborers. It outlines the key provisions of Bangladesh's child labor laws prohibiting employment under age 14 and in dangerous roles. Finally, it argues that effectively addressing child labor requires investments in free, accessible education alongside social supports for vulnerable families.

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3. Child Labor
Laws in
Bangladesh

5. To Inform My Audience About Child
Labor Laws in Bangladesh

6. Children are engaged in diverse forms of economic activities
in the developing countries. In Bangladesh, of the 22.8
million work places that have been surveyed in 1995-96,
21.2 percent reported to have had employed children
between the ages of 5-14 years.

7. Child labor 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.

8.  Violates a nation’s minimum age laws.
 Threatens children’s physical, mental, or emotional
well-being.
 Involves intolerable abuse, such as child slavery,
child trafficking, debt bondage, forced labor, or
illicit activities.

9.  Poverty and family size
 Victims of migration
 Illiteracy & ignorance
 Child labor law and rights
 Family breakdown
 Natural calamities

10. Type of labors Sample size
(in number)
Percentage
Rickshaw puller 17 21.25
Van puller 11 13.75
Rickshaw pusher 13 16.25
Construction labor 15 18.75
Welding labor 24 30.0
Total 80 100

11. Age (years) Number of
laborers
Percentage
10-12 10 12.5
12-14 31 38.75
14-16 17 21.25
16-18 22 27.5
Total 80 100

12. Daily income
(taka)
Number of
laborers
Percentage
20-40 19 23.75
40-60 47 58.75
60-80 8 10.0
80-100 6 7.50
Total 80 100

13. Educational status Number of
laborers
Percentage
Illiterate 13 6.25
Can sign at best 7 8.75
Primary level 56 70.0
Secondary level 4 5.0
Total 80 100

14. In Bangladesh:
 64% of children can read and write.
 7.9 million children (ages 5–17) work.
 62% of all working children are employed in
agricultural
 1.4 million children do hazardous work

15. While child labor is on a declining trend in other
South Asian countries–India and Pakistan and in the
world, it has been increasing in Bangladesh. This
increasing trend in the incidence of child labor
particularly focuses on the irrelevance..

16. Section 34: Prohibition of employment of children
and adolescent:
No child shall be employed or permitted to work in
any occupation or establishment.
No adolescent shall be employed or permitted to
work in any occupation.
 He carries , while at work, a token giving a
reference to such certificate

17. Section 35: Prohibition of certain agreement in
respect of children:
 Subject to the provisions of this chapter, no person, being
the parent or guardian of a child, shall make an agreement,
to allow the service of the child to be utilized in any
employment

18. Section 36: Disputes as to age:
If any question arises as to whether any person is a
child or an adolescent, the question shall, in the
absence of a certificate as to the age for inspector
for decision to a registered medical practitioner.
 A certificate as to age of a person granted by a
registered medical practitioner as mentioned in sub-
section (1), shall be conclusive evidence as to age of
the person to whom it relates

19. Section 37: Certificate of fitness:
 A registered medical practitioner shall, on the
application of any adolescent or his parent or
guardian or by the employer whether the concerned
adolescent is fit to work in any occupation or
establishment, examine such person and shall give
his decision as to his fitness:

20. Section 38: Power to require medical
examination
Section 39: Restriction of employment of
adolescent in certain work
Section 40: Employment of adolescent on
dangerous machines
Section 41: Working hours for adolescent
Section 42: Prohibition of employment of
adolescent in underground and under-water
work
Section 43: Notice of periods of work for
adolescent

21. Ways of curbing child labor is a challenging and
worthy task and require financial, moral and
political support from all the tiers of the society. In
truth, child labor can’t be virtually removed from a
country such as Bangladesh just now because the
problem of child labor is indissolubly rooted in our
society, so attempts have to be made in the first
place to decrease it.

22.  For the effective solutions of the above mentioned
problems, school education has to be free; school
feeding. Program me to be initiated; school utensils
such as pencils, rulers, textbooks to be offered;
arrangement for transportation to be made and for
these a large portion of the budget to be provided. In
our country primary education is free up to class
five, school feeding services offered and textbooks
given without any cost, although the illegal sale of
books by school authorities is very common.

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