Ending Child Labor
Working together to create a brighter future for Bangladesh’s children
About Us
Bangladesh Labor Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to labor rights in Bangladesh. We work tirelessly to end the exploitation of children, ensuring they have access to education and a chance at a brighter future.
Awareness
Empowering communities through knowledge and education
Advocacy
Fighting for the rights and well-being of vulnerable children
Our Vision
To create a Bangladesh where every child is free from the chains of labor and has equal opportunities for a better life
Our Mission
Our mission is to eradicate child labor by providing access to education and advocating for the rights and protection of children
About Child Labour
on farms
Child labour is work done by children that puts their health, safety, development and education at risk.
Over 70% of child labour worldwide is found in agriculture and some of the most common risks for children working on farms include handling pesticides and fertilisers, carrying heavy loads, and unguarded machines.
What is child labour in agriculture ?
Child labour is work that is harmful to children.
According to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the most widely accepted international human rights treaty in history, “children have the right to be protected from work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s education, or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development.”
Acceptable work for young people
The ILO says that light work for children aged 13–15 (for limited hours and not harming their health, safety or school attendance and achievement), or for those aged 12-14 if the minimum age is set at 14, can be permitted. Helping around the house in a safe way can be an important part of childhood in some cultures. Light work, however, should not be for more than 14 hours per week. For children above the minimum working age (say 15-18 in most countries) can work full time so long as they are not doing work which is considered a ‘Worst Form of Child Labour.’
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What is hazardous child labour?
Hazardous child labour is work done by a child under 18 years old that is likely to harm his or her mental and/or physical conditions. It is one of the worst forms of child labour, as defined in ILO Convention 182 on Worst Forms of Child Labour.
Check out the video to see what hazardous child labour means.
What are the causes of child labour on farms?
Child labour is a systemic problem with complex root causes, which make it a global challenge across sectors and cultures. Poverty, social instability, low levels of education and awareness, insufficient decent work opportunities and poor social programmes are some of the main factors that cause child labour around the world.
According to the latest ILO statistics, most child labour takes place within the family unit and, in agriculture, it is found in both subsistence and commercial farming. In many crops, including tobacco, it is common for children to work alongside their parents.
Watch the video to see some of the root causes of child labour in agriculture.
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