“Prevention of Child Labour in Bangladesh: A Study on the basis of Domestic Law and International Law”

Abstract

Child labour is widespread throughout the glove. Bangladesh is another victim of child labour. It damages children's health and general welfare. It creates a major obstacle to developed countries' growth. Children who work can easily drop out of school and increase the rate of illiteracy and nonproductive human. They create a vicious circle of poverty. And they work as an impediment to developing the countries economy. The international conventions like the International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child (UNCRC), and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) are addressed the child labour problem and they are trying to eliminate child labour from the glove. One of the major goals of Sustainable development goals (SDG) and Millennium development goals was to eradicate child labour from every country. This study tries to find the major anomalies to eradicate child labour from Bangladesh. To find out the reason why existing laws are not working properly to eradicate child labour. For this problem, what measures should be taken by the government to eradicate child labour from Bangladesh, is also discussed.