Bangladesh Child Labor

The problem that often occurs all over the world is whether child labor is beneficial or not. Many sources point out that those who start to work from an early age can have harmful effects in the long run, but multiculturalism around the world positions children as active participants in the community I will. Even in America, children can work with adults until the beginning of the 20th century. Today, the kids are working to go home to do their homework. Their job is to earn money independently at the age of 14.

A few years ago, Levi Strauss discovered that two sewing subcontractors in Bangladesh are using child laborers aged 11 to 14. This violates international law on child labor. However, as a result of further investigation, Levi leaders learned that about one-third turns into prostitution when child labor (mostly women) goes out of work. So what is the right way? Would you allow many people to engage in prostitution by allowing child laborers to continue working in the factory or forcing subcontractors to close their children? This is a difficult problem to achieve, achieving that the goal (to prevent child labor) to achieve conflicts with other goals (to prevent child labor to go to prostitution) It seems to be. Please think about that. What are you doing?

In 2011, Bangladesh made a gradual effort to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Bangladesh will criminalize human trafficking (including personal trafficking in persons), develop a child labor monitoring information system for managing data related to child labor, and fully fund the 2012 anti-trafficking deterrence law 2012 Adopted and started implementation. A $ 9 million Child Labor Project. However, the legal protection of child labor is limited and the ability to implement the Child Labor Law is still weak. The age of compulsory education in Bangladesh is lower. Children in Bangladesh are engaged in dangerous activities in worst forms of child labor, mainly agriculture and domestic services.