The number of child workers in hazardous jobs is increasing because of rising poverty, said a report on child rights situation in Bangladesh prepared by the children for the Committee on the Rights of the Child which monitors the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The report said many people were still unaware that education is a right of all children and this is why the number of schools for working children is still limited. A group of children at a programme organised by the Save the Children Sweden-Denmark at LGED Bhaban at Agargaon on Wednesday presented the report. The report has been prepared on information gathered from 12,225 children, mostly between aged 10 between 18 years from various places of the country. Children's organisations such as Ichchhey, Child Brigade, Bhorer Alo and National Children Task Force of Save the Children Australia, affiliated to Save the Children Sweden-Denmark, contributed to the preparation of the report parallel to the one prepared by the government and sent to the Committee on the Rights of the Child. After signing and ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1990, The government sends a report to the committee every five years, after it signed and ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the child, to portray the child rights situation in the country. The committee also receives reports from individuals, organisations and also children. The four children's organisations in Bangladesh prepared the child-led alternative report for the first time. Children participating in Wednesday's programme said they believed the report has been an effort to disseminate their point of view on the issues that affect their lives. In the report, Amar Katha Ami Bali, the children said family members and other guardians do not give priority to their wishes. At the end of the programme, 87 children who worked as child facilitators in the report preparation, formed a forum called Shishu Suraksha Andolan (movement for the protection of children) to follow up on the child rights situation in the country. Save the Children Sweden-Denmark country representative Niles Bentzen Pedersen, child rights programming adviser Else Ostergaard, and its deputy country representative Obaidur Rahman attended.