Protecting the rights of children and providing the essentials for their development must be part of the definition of poverty reduction.

The United Nations has announced it is marking the 2015 edition of the World Day Against Child Labour with a call for the international community to invest in quality education as a key step in the fight against child employment – a scourge that consumes over one hundred million children worldwide.

Underage children working in developing countries has been a harsh reality for many years and Bangladesh is no exception.

With child labour decreasing at a dismal rate of only 2.2 per cent per year; it would take more than a century to end the menace, says a report.

UN says armed groups in Central African Republic agrees to release all the children working with them and end child recruitment

Employees at different hotels and restaurants in Pabna are forced to work 12 to 15 hours a day. And despite this long hours of work, they are poorly paid.