Child Labour Unit () is a

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specialized unit under the Ministry of Labour and Employment responsible for eliminating child labor in Bangladesh.

History

Child Labour Unit was established in 2009 under the Ministry of Labour and Employment to eliminate child labor in Bangladesh. This was inline with

Convention on the Rights of the Child The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international international human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of ch ...

signed in 1990 and the National Child Policy 2011 policy of the government of Bangladesh. While this was mean't to be a temporary unit, the government of Bangladesh moved to make it a permanent unit under the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

References

2009 establishments in Bangladesh Organisations based in Dhaka Government agencies of Bangladesh Government departments of Bangladesh Child labour-related organizations Ministry of Labour and Employment (Bangladesh) {{Bangladesh-org-stub