Both the law enforcement officials and journalists failed miserably to protect the child’s best interest.

The protection of juvenile rights should remain a non-negotiable aspect of maintaining the integrity of the legal system in Bangladesh.

Unfortunately, a child suffering from mental health issues is often told, “get over it” or “it’s all in your head.”

Government must address children’s lack of playtime, dwindling playgrounds

Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian social reformer who  was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Malala Yousafzai in 2014, talks to the The Daily Star about the global child rights situation during his visit to Bangladesh on January 14-18.

I found out last Sunday that Ajay Devgn taught my husband about consent.

Too many children in Bangladesh miss out on a childhood and live precarious lives as they are forced to drop out of school, take up hazardous work, or enter into child marriage.

Around a month ago, protests broke out in Uttara after the body of a 12-year-old child named Boishakhi was recovered from a home in Sector 3, hanging from the ceiling fan.

Despite the law prohibiting the employment of children, many brick kiln owners across Cumilla's Chauddagram upazila employ minors to do hazardous work.

Out of the 40 million victims of modern slavery worldwide, almost two thirds—25 million people—are exploited in Asia and the Pacific. Making the region host to the largest number of victims of modern slavery today.

On the first day of April in 1930, a law came into force in the then Indian subcontinent restraining child marriage.

Physical assaults on children continue across the country despite protests by child rights activists, laws against corporal

The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has recommended that the women and children affairs ministry refrain from taking any legislative measures to lower the girls' minimum marriageable age below 18.

Yet again, we are confronted with the appalling news of 12-year-old boy tied to a tree and beaten mercilessly by more than one person, apparently as 'punishment for theft'.

Arzu Mia, chief of Bangladesh Chhatra League's Lalbagh unit who allegedly beat dead a teenage boy in Dhaka, has been killed in what Rab says gunfight.

The one-stop crisis centres (OCC), formed in 2001 to facilitate medical treatment, police assistance, social services, legal assistance and counselling for women and children who were victims of repression, have reportedly been reduced to providing medical services only.

Nearly a month into the killing of Rajon, another 13-year-old boy has been allegedly tortured to death in Khulna.

The surge in sadistic crimes before and after the Eid has given us some bone-chilling realisations about where our society is headed.

It happens everywhere in the world. Our sons and daughters feel entitled to what we have earned in our lifetime.

Underage children working in developing countries has been a harsh reality for many years and Bangladesh is no exception.