Dhaka, Dec. 3 -- New national research launched by The Freedom Fund, a human rights oraganisation, has revealed that almost 4 percent of street-involved boys in Dhaka have been subjected to commercial sexual exploitation, exposing widespread risks across the capital's public spaces and brothel settings.

The findings, from two landmark studies entitled Through Her Eyes and Beneath the Surface, were presented at a national dissemination event attended by senior representatives of the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, Department of Social Services, UN agencies, INGOs, NGOs, and survivor leaders, according to a media statement.

This event was funded by a grant from the United States Department of State, it added.

According to the stu...