Majority Act, 1875 [Act No IX of 1875]
Minimum Wages Ordinance, 1961 [Ordinance No. XXXIV of 1961, repealed by Act No.
42 of 2006]
Money Loan Court Act, 2003 [Act No. 8 of 2003]
Penal Code, 1860 [Act No. XLV of 1860]
Repression of Violence against Women and Children Act, 2000 [Act No. 8 of 2000]
Policy Instruments
Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of the People’s Republic of
Bangladesh, National Child Labour Elimination Policy, 2010 (March 2010)
Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Ministry of Women and Children
Affairs, National Children Policy, 2011 (February 2011)
Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of the People’s Republic of
Bangladesh, National Domestic Worker Protection and Welfare Policy, 2010 (Draft)
Treaties and Other International Legal Instruments
Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, opened for signature 28th June
1919, 15 UNTS 35 (entered into force 10th January 1920)
Convention concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers, 2011 (No. 189)
Convention concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour, 1930 (No. 29)
Convention concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment, 1973 (No. 138)
Convention concerning the Abolition of Forced Labour, 1957 (No. 105)
Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the
Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 (No. 182)
Convention Fixing the Minimum Age for Admission of Children to Industrial Employment
(Revised) 1937, (No. 59)
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 opened for signature 20th November 1989,
1577 UNTS 3 (entered into force 2nd September 1990)
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 opened for signature 16th
December 1966, 999 UNTS 171 (entered into force 23rd March, 1976)
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