, Dec. 7 -- Nearly 3.5 million children in Bangladesh remain engaged in labour, with over one lakh of them involved in hazardous work, and an overwhelming 99 per cent still fall outside legal protection despite recent labour law reforms.

The reason, experts say, is that the vast majority of these children work in the informal sector, where legal safeguards are weakest.

These observations were made by Prof Dr Md Nazmuzzaman Bhuiyan, of University of Dhaka, while presenting the keynote paper at a policy-sharing event on strengthening child labour-related laws and policies in Bangladesh.

The function was held on Sunday at a hotel in Dhaka, organised by Educo Bangladesh and the Child Labour Elimination Platform (CLAP). Educo Bangladesh Man...