A new report by the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham and GoodWeave International claims modern slavery and child labour persists in Bangladesh's ready-made garment (RMG) supply chains.

Child labor is present in RMG export supply chains in Bangladesh, especially via subcontracted factories. 100% of the minors interviewed during the study were illegally employed as child laborers ...

The government has declared 43 types of work as hazardous for children—jobs that threaten their physical and mental ...

Dhaka, June 12 -- While a new report shows a sharp decline in child labour in the Asia-Pacific region, the situation in Bangladesh is not the same. The broader child labor rate (detrimental forms ...

While not directly comparable, the CLARISSA research suggests a far higher prevalence of worst forms of child labour than the last Bangladesh National Child Labour Survey (2022), which estimated that ...

Child labour remains an issue in the country despite the government's pledge to eliminate it from all sectors by 2025 in line with the National Plan of Action (NPA 2020-2025) and the Children Act 2013 ...

Child labour rises for first time in two decades This content was published on Jun 10, 2021 The world has witnessed the first rise in child labour in 20 years, the United Nations said on Thursday.

Bangladesh is the world's second-largest leather-exporting country. A quarter of the country's leather workers are children, according to a study by the University of Sussex. These youngsters are ...

The report is based on field research carried out in and around shipbreaking yards in Chittagong, as well as in Northern Bangladesh villages, where many child workers come from. With Childbreaking ...

160 million children, almost 1 in 10 worldwide, are engaged in child labor, with 80 million working in hazardous conditions in agriculture, mining, domestic labor, and other sectors. On tobacco ...

The research, titled ‘Modern slavery and child labour in Bangladesh’s garment sector: Documenting risks and informing solutions,’ pays particular attention to covert and unregistered subcontracting ...

Calls for Bangladesh’s interim government to protect poorest children seeking to support their families through dangerous work. First of its kind study designed by and conducted with children in worst ...