Cheaper Than a Man
Child Recruitment, Adult Impunity and the Unintended Price of Protection in Dhaka The record and findings of ASCEND's first roundtable conference, on the recruitment of children into kishor gangs in Dhaka.
The roundtable conference was held on 1 October 2026 at the Professor Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury Auditorium, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Dhaka, with more than 700 participants in the hall and online from 25 countries.
The report sets out the record of the afternoon and what it established about how children are drawn into crime by adults who stay out of reach of the law. It is due by 26 November 2026.