Bangladesh is witnessing a troubling rise in child labour, with the latest government survey showing that about 9.2 percent of children aged 5–17 are engaged in work, up from 6.8 percent in 2019.

Ten-year-old boy Maharram came to work at a brick kiln in Dhamrai just one month ago. He will also have to work for the next ...

A recent survey by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, with support from Unicef, has unravelled some bleak statistics on ...

The nationwide survey-covering nearly 63,000 households and 199 indicators-reveals that 1.2 million more children are now ...

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Bangladeshi child labourers who live in slums work for an average of 64 hours a week, many of them in textile factories making clothes for top world brands, a major study said Wednesday. The new ...

Over and over again, it has been reiterated that progress, development, or ambitions - none of these words mean much if we ...

Dhaka, Bangladesh, 6 December 2023 — A recent assessment by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) reveals a dramatic increase in child marriage within Bangladesh's highly disaster-prone and climate ...

Children dry raw bricks under the sun, fire them in blazing kilns, carry soil, lift bricks, stack them into pyramids – ...

New findings reveal that 38% of children aged 12–59 months and nearly 8% of pregnant women have blood lead levels above safe thresholds, with Dhaka (65%) being the most affected, according to a survey ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Police in Bangladesh are investigating the death of a 10-year-old boy at a textile mill who was killed after co-workers inserted the nozzle of a high-pressure air pump in his rectum ...