Executive Summary The present report of the Bangladesh National Human Rights Commission to the UN Committee on the Rights of Child aims to provide an alternative view of the status of the Government of Bangladesh’s implementation of its legal obligationsunder the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989.Bangladesh signed the Convention on 26 January 1990 and ratified it on 3 August 1990. In conformity with the Convention obligation,the Government of Bangladesh submitted its Fifth State Party Periodic Report in 2012. In light of this, the BNHRC has decided to submit its own reportto the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The report goes systematically through the main substantive provisions of the Convention and relates relevant law, policy and practice to the legally binding obligations implicated therein in orderto provide an independent assessment of the child rights situation in Bangladesh. In particular, the report aims atfilling gaps in the State reportsand makingrecommendations for immediate action which will help bring Bangladesh’s law, policy and practice nearer to compliance with the Convention.