Child Labour: the other side
Click to watch: Bangladesh: Child Labour - The Other Side
Description: Is child labour a bad thing? In one of the first films on the ‘other side’ of the debate, award-winning journalist Ron McCullagh reveals that for many children “child labour” is the best hope they’ve got of escaping absolute poverty. Titu is fourteen and he’s worked for over half his life. He works in a hot and fume-filled battery factory in Dhaka, an unhealthy place for any worker let alone a child. Yet with his earnings Titu pays for a tutor, school books and part of the rent for his family home. He works, he tells us, because he wants to get a good job and make sure his children will have a better childhood than the one he is experiencing.
NOTE: This report won the “One World Broadcasting Trust / Unicef 1998 Advancement of Children’s Rights award”.