PROTECTION OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS OF STREET CHILDREN: BANGLADESH PERSPECTIVE
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No one will deny the fact that the street children are the most neglected section of children in Bangladesh. They are dull, afraid, abandoned, assaulted, tortured, and killed every day. They matured very early, spoiled and very often die very quickly. Even if they can survive anyhow, they will lead the life of the victim and without rights. Even, their basic human rights are violated by various means. To combat the violation of their rights effectively, we must be careful about their actual causes of street migration and their reality. The framework of this paper is to focus on existing nationwide violations of their basic human rights from the context of various national and international instruments such as The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 (UNCRC), the Children Act 2013 (CA 2013) or country’s existing development policies. Within the framework, main objectives of this research paper is to articulate various basic human rights provided to street children by those instruments and evaluate the level of their violation in Bangladesh.
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