Child Labor In Bangladesh

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When all the children should have engaged themselves in studies, then a large number of children here in Bangladesh are doing very dangerous works to live from hand to mouth. Child labors are the labors aged below 18. It is a matter of great anxiety for all of us as child labor is very dangerous and harmful. In many places, children are mentally and physically oppressed during their work. Their working in the hotels or in the garments, as a tempo helper or a tokai is really pathetic. Sometimes they are engaged in full time job from tender age like domestic servant, day-laborer. It may involve too much physical pressure such as brick clinker, railway porter. They are not well-fed and well-cared. They live and work in unsanitary working conditions as garbage collector. They get too much responsibility incommensurate with the age of the child. Child labor hampers the opportunity of education. It is against the dignity and self-esteem of the child. It also hampers physical and mental development and it is hazardous for the child. But a child has right to live and survive well. Being deprived of basic rights, a child cannot become a perfect man. We should ensure their good leaving. A child should be protected from all kinds of threats and oppressions. He has the right to get educated. We should encourage them to learn. We should also ensure a child’s health and hygiene. Child labor should be banned from the society as soon as possible for a better future of the country because one who is child today will be a perfect man tomorrow. We should try to improve their physical and mental development. A child should not be forced into labor. We must not expect income from the
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