Bangladeshi Street Children & his right
Why increasing Street Children
& what his right
There are estimated to
be around 120 million children living on the streets in the world (30 million
in Africa, 30 million in Asia, and 60 million in South America). Often victims
of all kinds of abuse, these children still have rights…
What is a street child?
Street children are youths who live and live
on the streets. They often grow up in public landfills, train stations, our
under the bridges of the world’s major cities. Because of conflicts with their
family, these children don’t want to or can’t return home.
Why does a child live on the streets?
The distinctiveness of street children is
multi-layered. The combination of familial, economic, social, and political
factors play an significant role in their situation. It is therefore very
difficult to single out one or more causes.
However, children who have been questioned say
that family, poverty, abuse, war, etc. are often why they left for the streets.
What are the problems encountered by street
children?
Street children are confronted by a large
number of problems. In fact, growing up in an environment generally regarded as
dangerous, they incur considerable risks.
As a consequence, some of their rights are
very often compromised.
Street Children in Bangladesh
Bangladesh, which approved the International Covenant
on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
in August 1990, has dedicated itself to admiration, defend, and approve the
rights of Bangladeshi children. Yet, notwithstanding its promise, the country
faces thoughtful problems (ineffective services, inadequate politics, etc.)
that are currently delaying children from accessing the full pleasure of their
rights.
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Realization
of Children’s Rights Index :
6,03 / 10
Red level : Difficult situation
Population: 156.6 million
Pop. ages 0-14: 30 %
Life expectancy: 70.3 years
Under-5 mortality rate: 41 ‰ |
More than 60 million children live in Bangladesh (that’s 8
times the number of children in France); half of them grow up in the most hopeless poverty.
Poverty, which touches a large popular of young Bangladeshi and is
the result of a high joblessness rate, has severe consequences on children’s
access to: a healthy diet, health
services, an education, sufficient economic resources to overcome this poverty etc.
Health
The child undernourishment rate remains worrying in
Bangladesh. It mainly touches poor children who don’t have the means to easily feedstuff
themselves. Moreover, unadorned climate (floods, natural disasters, etc.) of
which some relatives in rustic areas are victims, has cooperated their food safety.
Waterborne sicknesses also remain thoughtful. In fact,
because filtered water is rare and hygiene systems are inadequate, Bangladeshi
children often agonize from diarrhoea. What’s additional, a large number of parentages
forget to wash their hands foremost to the spread of microorganisms.
Regarding immunizations, a large majority of children among
ages 1 and 2 have been inoculated. On the other hand, due to a lack of support
from health facilities in far-flung areas of the country, families stop having
their children inoculated.
Child
humanity
Although the humanity rate for those less than 5 years old has meaningfully reduced,
it still remains worrying.
For lack of means, mothers don’t know where to turn when
they need help. In fact, the country extremely lacks pediatrics services and capable
personnel. Furthermore, information about birth assumed to young women is
almost non-existent. Very often, they don’t know, for example, that their baby
needs to breastfeed directly or that they need to keep them warm.
This problem can be effortlessly solved if local establishments
develop health
services and train more hospital employees.
Right
to Individuality
Bangladeshi parents infrequently report the birth of their
child to establishments. Yet, without a birth certificate, a child’s right to individuality
is not appreciated. In fact, they are not documented as full-fledged members of
civilization and can’t work out their rights. From then on they appear imperceptible
in the eyes of the community.
Also, unregistered children are not protected from abuse,
such as forced
labour, prostitution, early marriage, smuggling and trafficking, etc.
Therefore, it is essential that the Bangladeshi government
undertake to automate the birth registration system and the delivery of birth
certificates.
Right
to Education
In Bangladesh, education is free, and it is compulsory for children between 6
and 10 to attend school. However, child
labourers, handicapped children, native
children, etc. only rarely have admission to
education. Their right to education is not appreciated.
This is also true for children from poor societies
(especially boys) who must often recklessness their education to be able to help their family monetarily.
The quality of education is not very good because a third of professors teach
without a diploma. Additionally, substructures are out-of-date: the lack of
separate hygienic services for girls, the lack of airing and lighting, etc.
Also, the abuse some children face in the school location remains extensive.
In fact, studies have shown that children were physically battered by their
teacher and that girls were often sexually beleaguered at school or on their
way to school.
Child
Exploitation
Bangladeshi children, in public and private formations as
well as in their families, experience different forms of violence and
negligence. In school, for example, teachers
often mistreat their students. The police are also known for their
use of force, even towards young criminals. In Bangladesh, corporal penalty and
humiliating treatments are the norm because they are allowed by law and
society.
Child
Marriage
Although unlawful, child marriage remains an extensive practice in Bangladesh. In fact,
a third of young Bangladeshi girls are wedded before the age of 15.
Custom needs that the family of the bride pay a sum of money
to the family of the groom. Sometimes, payments are paid after the marriage.
The danger is that in case of non-payment, the young girl risks being battered.
Child
marriages have negative consequences on
their health, growth, and the full exercise of their rights. Married at an
early age, young girls have limited social interaction because they have wild
their education. What’s more, they risk early gravidity, which can have
dangerous consequences on their health and the health of the child.
Lawmaking measures and information movements must be
implemented so that Bangladesh can, on one hand, forbid these old-style harmful
practices, and on the other hand, inform communities about the hazards that
these customs generate.
Child
Labour
Because of dangerous poverty, families are often involuntary to make their children
work. They are usually employed in construction, battery recycling, road
transport, car repair shops, and tobacco factories.
Unschooled, these children grow up in miserable circumstances:
long work hours, low salary, no food, etc. Additionally, they face risks
associated with prostitution, discrimination, abuse, etc.
Bangladesh is also challenged with the situation of young
boy-jockeys. They are sent to the Middle East where they are employed in camel
races as jockeys. Their diet is often restricted so that they don’t gain
weight. Additionally, they are often subjected to physical and sexual
abuse.
Youthful Righteousness
In Bangladesh, young criminals are regularly abused while in
custody. What’s more, there are youthful courts, but often children are condemned
by an ordinary court. Likewise, custody centers for young criminals have
been industrialized, but children are usually confined with adults.
Sentences can be tremendously punitive in Bangladesh. In
fact, some children less than 15 years old have been condemned to life in custodial
and others, less than 18, have been condemned to death.
The committee of the Rights of the Child is very concerned
about these sentences and endorses that the State forbid the death consequence
or life in prison for youth, that it raise the age of criminal liability to 12,
and that justice for minors conform to the International
Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Child Trafficking
Children from poor Bangladeshi groups have a high risk of
being sold by their parents, who envisage the relocation helpful: secure wages,
better alive circumstances, etc. Yet the realism is whatever but: broods are browbeaten,
girls in specific are at first employed as domestic domestics, then as
prostitutes.
In Bangladesh, children infrequently have the option
to express their opinions and to contribute in choices taken at home, at
school, etc. Likewise, in legal and directorial minutes, youth are rarely
heard. They don’t take part in decisions about them. Consequently, progress in
the area of participation must be undertaken.
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