Reseach Proposal
Research Proposal Child Labour in Bangladesh
[Child Labour Report Initiatives]
12/10/2010
Zulqarnain Sayem 08-12447-3
Niloy Saha 08-12266-3
Md. Zahidur Rahman 08-12306-3
rohit kejriwal 08-12305-3
Introduction
Basic Information about the topic
Child labour refers to the employment of children at regular and sustained labour. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organizations and is illegal in many countries.. In many developed countries, it is considered inappropriate or exploitative if a child below a certain age works (excluding household chores or school-related work). An employer is usually not permitted to hire a child below a certain minimum age. This minimum age depends on the country and the type of work involved. In any society, working children, as a socio-economic group, happens to be the most disadvantaged of all since "they are forced to work for a living, sacrificing their childhood as well as their future for bare survival of self and family". Today, as individual well being increasingly depends on literacy, numeracy and intellectual competence, a child working is in fact a future denied. 0 0000000000
Child labour also exists in many industrialised countries and is emerging in a number of East European countries that are now in transition to a free market economy. Although Bangladesh accounts for less than 2 percent of the world population, it is the home of 6.6 million working children, accounting for more than 5 percent of the world's working child population numbering 120 million. In Bangladesh children are found working in almost all the sectors of the economy except mining, quarrying, electricity, gas and water. Many of them work 48 hours a week on an average, earning less than 500 taka per month. A large number of children work in occupations and industries, which are plainly
[Child Labour Report Initiatives]
12/10/2010
Zulqarnain Sayem 08-12447-3
Niloy Saha 08-12266-3
Md. Zahidur Rahman 08-12306-3
rohit kejriwal 08-12305-3
Introduction
Basic Information about the topic
Child labour refers to the employment of children at regular and sustained labour. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organizations and is illegal in many countries.. In many developed countries, it is considered inappropriate or exploitative if a child below a certain age works (excluding household chores or school-related work). An employer is usually not permitted to hire a child below a certain minimum age. This minimum age depends on the country and the type of work involved. In any society, working children, as a socio-economic group, happens to be the most disadvantaged of all since "they are forced to work for a living, sacrificing their childhood as well as their future for bare survival of self and family". Today, as individual well being increasingly depends on literacy, numeracy and intellectual competence, a child working is in fact a future denied. 0 0000000000
Child labour also exists in many industrialised countries and is emerging in a number of East European countries that are now in transition to a free market economy. Although Bangladesh accounts for less than 2 percent of the world population, it is the home of 6.6 million working children, accounting for more than 5 percent of the world's working child population numbering 120 million. In Bangladesh children are found working in almost all the sectors of the economy except mining, quarrying, electricity, gas and water. Many of them work 48 hours a week on an average, earning less than 500 taka per month. A large number of children work in occupations and industries, which are plainly