When you think about child labour in Bangladesh, your mind might first drift to the sights of children toiling in construction sites without any safety precaution, inhaling toxic fumes in welding ...

One of her key priorities should be taking action to end hazardous child labor. My colleagues and I have researched hazardous child labor on US farms and interviewed children working exhausting 12 ...

Switzerland is ending its bilateral development activities in Bangladesh after more than 50 years. This could complicate an ...

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international ...

Yasmin represents the millions of women excluded from the labour force, who say that family and household work is a ...

Dhaka: Bangladesh still faces significant challenges, including high rates of child marriage, gender inequality, violence, and limited opportunities for girls, according to a recent global report.

After battling for six days between life and death, the eight-year-old girl, who was raped and subjected to an attempted ...

Serious attention needs to be paid to adolescent girls in Bangladesh, who still grapple with persistent inequalities, violence, child marriage, a lack of education and limited opportunities, said a ...

A new global report, "Girl Goals: What has changed for girls? Adolescent girls’ rights over 30 years," released on Saturday by Unicef, UN Women, and Plan International to mark the International ...

Instead of attending school, millions of children are exploited in forced labor. But education itself can be a key solution ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide information to the Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights on ...

The World Food Programme’s announced reduction in food rations for Rohingya refugees is a potential death sentence for a ...