Large, multinational businesses are typically at the heart of conversations about tackling child labour, yet we are increasingly aware that…
Social Protection
Mapping of Slums and Identifying Children Engaged in Worst Forms of Child Labour Living in Slums and Working in Neighbourhood Areas
The National Child Labour Survey 2013 estimated that Bangladesh is home to 3.45 million working children, including 1.28 million engaged…
Shifting the focus onto the ‘Small Business of Child Labour’
Progress towards the UN global goal to ‘eliminate child labour in all its forms by 2025’ will not be made…
How can we tackle the causes, not the symptoms of harmful child labour?
To make progress towards reducing the worst forms of child labour by 2025, efforts need to focus on where those…
We dry the cowhide while our skin dries in the sun
Drying cowhide is a laborious job. You need to continuously turn the hide, stand by it to ensure they are…
The pandemic pushes more children into the Worst Forms of Child Labour
I met Rafique*, while he was taking a small break and drinking tea at the roadside. I was collecting life…
Children’s Engagement with Exploitative Work in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Despite decades of interventions aiming to reduce child labour, children’s engagement with exploitative work remains widespread, particularly in South Asia….