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15 Int'l J. Child. Rts. 391 (2007)
The Discourse of Children's Rights in Bangladesh: International Norms and Local Definitions

handle is hein.journals/intjchrb15 and id is 401 raw text is: THz IPTWH1ONAL JOLUtL OF CHuumZ's Rion MARTINUS IJHOFF PU B LIS H E R S International Journal of Childrens Rights 15 (2007) 391-414 www.brill.nl/chil The Discourse of Children's Rights in Bangladesh: International Norms and Local Definitions Cyndi Banks Northern Arizona University Department of Criminal Justice In Bangladesh, a poor and largely agricultural country, there were approximately 60 million children and adolescents under 19 years of age within a population of 129.2 million in 2001 and 13.4 million boys and 13 million girls aged between 10 and 19 years. According to the Department of Social Welfare, Government of Bangladesh (GOB) children in the 0-14 age group make up about 43% of the total population and those in the age group 0-16 years, 55%. Approximately 75% percent of the population lives in the rural areas, however, between 1980 and 1985, the proportion living in urban areas nearly doubled from 11 to 18 per- cent with an annual average growth rate of 5.6% (UNICEF & Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs 2001). By 1998 the urban population was esti- mated to be 30 million. The annual income per capita is about 377 USD (Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics 2001). The productive and industrial sector is slowly growing and Bangladesh has focused on garment manufacturing where it has enjoyed a com- parative advantage based on low labour costs although this will change with the abolition of the quota system that favored states like Bangladesh. Life expectancy at birth is 60.7 years for males and 60.5 years for females. About 60 million peo- ple live under the poverty line and the population density is among the highest in the world. Bangladesh has a traumatic history. Part of British colonial India up to the British partition in 1947, on partition it became part of Pakistan because of its largely Muslim population and was named East Pakistan. From 1948 to 1971 it was administered from West Pakistan. When the Pakistani government declared that Urdu would be the national language of the whole of Pakistan, the Bengalis of East Pakistan created a Bangla (Bengali) Language Movement that soon grew to become a Bengali national movement. © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10. 1163/092755607X262801

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