Existing Laws and Ratified Conventions Concerning Child Protections
International level:
* Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949.1
* Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices (Protocol II). Geneva, 10 October 1980. 2
* Final Act of the Diplomatic Conference of Geneva of 1974-1977.3
* Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Ratified 5 Oct 1998.4
* International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Ratified 11 Jun 1979.5
* International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Ratified 5 Oct 1998.6
* International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Ratified 6 Sep 2000.7
* International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid 6 Jul 1983.8
* Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Ratified 6 Nov 1984.9
* Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Ratified 6 Sep 2000.10
* Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Ratified 5 Oct 1998.11
* Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ratified 3 Aug 1990.12
* Amendment to article 43 (2) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Ratified 23 Apr 1997.13
* Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. Ratified 6 Sep 2000.14
* Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. Ratified 6 Sep 2000.15
* International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all migrant workers and members of their families. Signed not ratified 7 Oct 1998.16
* Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Ratified 30 Nov 2007.17
* Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Ratified 12 May 2008.18
* ILO Convention no 182 on the worst forms of Child Labour
Ratified 2001.19
Regional legislation:
* The Committee notes that the State party has adopted the regional strategy for seven countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to combat child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children.20
National legislation:
* The Children Act, 1974.21
* Children Rules of Bangladesh (1976)22
* The Children Policy, 1994.23
* The 3rd National Plan of Action for Children (2005-2010) was adopted in 2005.24