Dhaka, April 21 -- IT IS no new news for us in Bangladesh to know that Bangladesh children are subjected to the worst forms of child labour including commercial sexual exploitation and forced labour in the drying of fish and the production of bricks. Foreign countries and organisations often point out such cruel exploitation of children.

At every nook and cranny in Bangladesh, children with age as low as nine/ten years are seen engaged in hard physical work. They also face corporal punishment of the worst nature when they fail to deliver according to the desires of their employers. In the capital Dhaka, the heart of the country, numerous such children are working as helpers of human haulers and buses, not to mention those wretched poor b...