Child Rights Act '74 to be updated to ensure children's equal rights: PM
Sunday, 29 March 2009
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Saturday said her government would revamp the Child Rights Act 1974 suiting the situation of the day to ensure equal facilities for children of all strata of society, reports UNB.
"The Child Rights Act will be amended to keep pace with the time.
Children from capital Dhaka as well as of a remote village will get equal facilities of education and health services," she said.
The PM unveiled her centre-left grand alliance government's egalitarian policy about children's rights while addressing the prize-giving ceremony of a national cultural competition at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in the afternoon.
Bangabandhu Shishu Kishore Mela arranged the competition across the country marking the 16th National Children Day observed on March 17 on the occasion of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's birthday.
Some 80,000 children took part in the competition. Of them, 120 participants received prizes from the PM as winners in various categories.
Congratulating the little champions and all the participants, the PM lamented that until today there are so many children in the country who even did not get two square meals a day.
"Bangabandhu did not make the country independent to see such a reality. The Father of the Nation's dream was to present you (children) a bright, prosperous future," she said.
She also deplored that children were still being used in some hazardous work despite child labour being banned in the country.
The children needed to be groomed in the light of modern science and technology as they were the future of the nation, Hasina said.
The Premier asked the parents to bring up their children imbued with the spirit of real history of the 1971 liberation war.
She said the children would have to be groomed with the lessons in morality to reduce the rich-poor discrimination.
"The inequity between the rich and the poor is increasing day by day. But we dream of such a country where there will be no discrimination among the people," Hasina said about the vision of an equal-opportunity society.
"The Child Rights Act will be amended to keep pace with the time.
Children from capital Dhaka as well as of a remote village will get equal facilities of education and health services," she said.
The PM unveiled her centre-left grand alliance government's egalitarian policy about children's rights while addressing the prize-giving ceremony of a national cultural competition at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in the afternoon.
Bangabandhu Shishu Kishore Mela arranged the competition across the country marking the 16th National Children Day observed on March 17 on the occasion of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's birthday.
Some 80,000 children took part in the competition. Of them, 120 participants received prizes from the PM as winners in various categories.
Congratulating the little champions and all the participants, the PM lamented that until today there are so many children in the country who even did not get two square meals a day.
"Bangabandhu did not make the country independent to see such a reality. The Father of the Nation's dream was to present you (children) a bright, prosperous future," she said.
She also deplored that children were still being used in some hazardous work despite child labour being banned in the country.
The children needed to be groomed in the light of modern science and technology as they were the future of the nation, Hasina said.
The Premier asked the parents to bring up their children imbued with the spirit of real history of the 1971 liberation war.
She said the children would have to be groomed with the lessons in morality to reduce the rich-poor discrimination.
"The inequity between the rich and the poor is increasing day by day. But we dream of such a country where there will be no discrimination among the people," Hasina said about the vision of an equal-opportunity society.