Child Labour Unit

Child Labour Unit (Bengali: শিশু শ্রমিক ইউনিট) is a Bangladesh government specialized unit under the Ministry of Labour and Employment responsible for eliminating child labor in Bangladesh.^[1][2][3]

Child Labour Unit

Formation	2009
Headquarters	Dhaka, Bangladesh
Region served	Bangladesh
Official language	Bengali
Website	Child Labour Unit

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 signed in 1990 and the National Child Policy 2011 policy of the government of Bangladesh.^[4] 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.^[5]