Children also shared the negetive sides of work

Children also shared the negetive sides of work.The scolding and abusive language of the employer at times demoraloized them.Most of the children seem familiar with the issue of sexual abuse.It can take place in three locations-at the workplace,at home,in public place.At home some of the girls receiving unwelcome advances from other relatives and neighbours.At the workplace girls,as domestic workers are vulnerable to their emloyers as well as the employers visitors and relatives.In public place,girls whose occupations entail being out on the streets,such as waste pickers and vendors are even more exposed and are often approached for prostitution.Boys too are exposed to indecent exposure by older man and strangers.The other negetive side is it is hamper the children educations.

Slavery Children in Bangladesh

There are hundreds of millions of children and young people in the world imprisoned not in reminds home but in physical labor more permanents than steel bars and iron locks alone could create.These are children and young people.This activities harm their bodies,minds,spirits and above all a good and prosperous future.Working children have become an integral part of Bangladeshi society.A child worker considered another cheap and easily controlled worker in the labor force.Poverty,illiteracy and Child labor go hand in hand.A child earnings have become a necessity for those families which are struggling to make ends up.The child has no alternative.The lack of quality education and the pitiable conditions of available schools is no incentive for a child to quit work and join school.In addition,children become the victims violence,exploition and abuse they can result in physical and physiological disabilities.Also children become a prisoner twice.The child is caught in the conflict between right to life and the fight to earn versus the acceptable norms of survival.

Child service is a widespread

Child service is a widespread practice in Bangladesh.They are so poor.Although children are employed as domestic throughout the country,They have overwhelmingly high concentration in the cities.Employers in the urban areas usually recruit children from their village home through family,friends or contacts.Most of the domestic child workers comes from vulnerable families,many of them being orphans children.A good number of them are from having the single-parent families.Child domestic work very long hours,getting up well before their employers and going to bed long after them.On an average 5 percent children workers work 13-14 hours in a day.The domestic child workers works in oil,soap,towel,comb,cloths company.Boys often perform tasks like going to grocery,cleaning the drain,taking the garbage to roadside bins washing the cars.

Servant at Home

In our country people are so poor.They do different works different place.There is a job is called sevant.Servant means who works in peoples house.I talked with 1 boy who served in a home.His name Nur Ali and age is 12.He has 3 brothers.His father is a farmer and mother is housewife.His younger brother do jobs in their village.He said,he came city for his life,because they are poor.Also,he said in the city life is better life from the village.His income per month is 800 taka.He is illiterate.He said,he do not like this kind of jobs.He wants to be a doctor.But for proverty takes his luck.Some,servent works for part time.they called in bangla “BUA”.They works 2 or 3 houses in a day.Their husband and parents are poor.Some child servant outraged by their owner.They do lots of work in a day.Sometimes servant are stolen different things from the house.They think they do right things.Because,they do not get much food or cloths from the owner.Also they do not get monthly fee timely.Sometimes they do not get fee from the owner.

Babies are Begging Stret to Stret

Now a days,child baggers are doing different kind of crime.In some area street beggers are proved cheaters.Some able bodies are found pretending lame,dump or blind.Some,of these children do crime in a day or night.They stealing different things or hijecking to the people.Some are addicted in drugs like heroine,ciggarte,gaja etc.In the picture,one child is inhaling from the plastic bag.it is one kind of drugs.They doing crime only for their proverty.

What the children considered

What the children considered to be hazardous varried.Some activities like wiping floor,fetching water,hawking.For most it meant where they could hurt themselves such as working near a fire,working with sharp objects,grating spices,beaking bricks etc.There are also hard work like carrying weights,pulling carts and welding.Generally children feel that,it is up to them to avoid getting hurt or injured.The protection measures that they mentioned were mainly being more careful nad attentive,so as not get hurt.Some of the children seemed to have knowledge about protective measures such as gloves or protective goggles.Girls who are brick chipping,they feel this work is hazardous for their health and well being.they were exposed to people on the street and mastans.This type of girls said,they do not talk when they are working.

Slavery social and legal system

Slavery social and legal system permitting human beings to be bought and sold in the formal market and forced to work for the purchasers as their private property.The rise of free labor ,gradual industrialization and humanist movements from the second half of the nineteenth century made slavery gradually unpopular and socially unacceptable.Bengal free from slavery from the early twentieth century.As free labor was not available in the market ,socially and economically weaker elements in the society were reduced to slave by in order to sustain production and maintain their dominance.To continue and sustain public works like constructions and maintenance of public buildings ,dams,bridges,highways,the city needed big labor force.People marginalized by famines,wars and caste system were the main victims of slavery.Many of the orphans,paupers,widows also ended up on the market.Thugs and other criminal elements kidnapped children for selling them.There were two dominant categories of slaves:Domestic slave and Agrestic slave.Most agrestic slavery was a common features of in bengla from ancient times of the end of nineteenth century.Today,we can not see slavery,but still many peoples and children works like slavery.

Trafficking in woman and children

Trafficking in woman and children within the territory of Bangladesh also a common phenomenon.Uneducated and vulnerable woman and children deprived of financial,legal,social support and opportunities easily become victims of internal and cross border trafficking.Most of the children and girls are sold in the brothels engaged in prostitution or in cage brothels in the receiving countries like India,Pakistan and Middle-Eastern country.The victims are in the being high risk HIV positives.There are two types trafficking in Bangladesh.One is internal and other is cross border trafficking.In the case of internal trafficking girls and children’s are often take away from their homes through abduction,on false promise of better life in good employment.on the other hand cross border level,they are smuggled by the gang of traffickers to place them further destinations such as India,Pakistan and other Middle Easters countries where their ultimate fate is a life of sexual exploitation,abuse and other forms of bounded labor.Tiny boys who are trafficked to the Middle East become camel jockeys,which is very risky and hazardous job.The net workers of traffickers in Bangladesh are well organized with different settings of people like local political leaders,smugglers,anti-social activists and some low enforcement personnel also.

The working child

 

The working child population of the country demanded the following essential facilities from the new Government of the country :-Free education for the disadvantaged children.Family pension was to be arranged for the working children.Compensation has to be provided by the employers in the case of accident during work.Essential requirements like food,clothing,lodging,education and medical treatment have to be provided by the government free of cost.Stop child trafficking,oppression of woman and children and all forms of terrorism.Increase salary for jobs,ensure of proper salary in time.Stop child labor.Stop forceful employment of young girls in sex-trade.Ensure proper healthy environment at home and workplace.Provide recreational facilities for children.

Child Domestic Workers

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Child Domestic service is a widespread practice in Bangladesh.The majority of child domestics tend to be 12 and 17 years old.But children as young as 5 or 6 years old can also be found working.A survey of child domestic workers found that 38 percent were 11 to 13 years old and nearly 24 percent were 5 to 10 years old.Child domestics works long hours,getting up well before their employers and going to bed long after them.on 50 percent domestic workers work 12- 14 hours a day.Irrespective of their gender,Child domestic carry out all sorts of household work.Boys often perform tasks like going to the grocery,cleaning the drain,talking the garbage to roadside bins,washing the car and sell nuts etc.On the other hand,girls have to iron the cloths,attend phone calls and serves the guests.The child domestic workers are often the least paid in the society,their remuneration ranging from 80 taka to 400 taka per month.In most of the cases,they hand over all their earnings to their parents,leaving nothing for themselves.