Environmental disasters linked to climate change are threatening the lives and futures of over 19 million children in Bangladesh, including prompting many families to push their daughters into child marriages, UNICEF said Friday. “Climate change is deepening the environmental threat faced by families in Bangladesh’s poorest communities, leaving them unable to keep their children properly […]
child labour
Child labour
Sir: I am writing to your good-self to express my deep anguish over the unrelenting problem of rising child-labour in our country. The problem of child-labour is quite widespread across the Pakistan. In spite of the many anti-child labour laws, the problem is continues to spoil the lives of thousands of children. The adverse effects […]
The problem is still there
In a country full of poverty, discrimination and social injustice, the group that suffers the most are children. Even more so, child labour is a major issue in our country; despite the fact that it is banned from the efforts of thirteen year old Iqbal Masih – child labour still prevails. The root of this […]
Shazia Allahyar’s fairy tale
“No money… no food,” said Shazia Allahyar, a girl child, a wage earner, and a highly exploited human being. She considers herself a brave and fearless princess who wears the crown of her innocent yet clever childhood; she is the 9-year-old provider for her family, the heroine of her own fairy-tale. Shazia remembers waking up […]