children's rights

Why is child labour still rampant?

No minors should be employed in hazardous work
7 August 2025

Don't children have the right to privacy?

At the registration desk of a private hospital in Dhaka, an employee loudly asked for personal information.
13 June 2024

Why laws and campaigns are failing to stop child marriage

Why parents to resort to child marriage?
19 April 2024

Keeping children under parental care must be a top priority

Family is the most important social structure to ensure a child’s growth in every respect.
3 April 2024

Bring child labourers back to school

Social issues behind child labour must be addressed
18 March 2024

And what of the dignity of the child?

The Child Bill 2013 is supposed to be in harmony with the CRC and recognises that an individual below 18 is a child. Why then do we still have child marriages? Why then do we have little children working in homes, in biri factories, in garbage dumps and tanneries?
19 November 2015