Child workers seek security, safety at NUS workshop

Child commercial sex workers and garment labourers projected their different problems in the programme and said due to poverty they are forced to take up hazardous works.

They said job opportunity in the garment sector is narrowing for children and as a result, they have to face lack of food and social security.

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They asked the government to introduce special education scholarship for adolescent girls in the slums. Child commercial sex workers said the government should pay attention to girls and boys who are abducted and used as sex workers.

The discussion facilitator mentioned that at present around eight million children are engaged in 425 types of jobs, 67 of them are hazardous.