Poverty in Afghanistan
Child Labor in Afghanistan Remains a Problem
An Afghan boy selling boiled eggs waits for customers at a coal dump site on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Children Rights
The toe of a homeless child pokes out from a sack
Lalitpur, Nepal: The toe of a homeless child pokes out from a sack as he sleeps on the street.
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India
Millions of children hard at work in India
Across the globe more than 150 million children between age five and 14 are involved in child labour, while India is home to the highest number …
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Children Rights
Children rest after a day of work in Kiwanja, North Kivu
Children rest after a day of work in Kiwanja, North Kivu.
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Child poverty
Hunger and child abandonment in north South Sudan
Three-hundred children in South Sudan's Northern Bahr El Ghazal region have been abandoned by parents fleeing the country to escape two years…
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Human Rights Watch
Child Labour in Australia
From European settlement in 1888, child convicts were occasionally sent to Australia where they were made to work. Child labour was not as excess…
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Wars
30 million children displaced - NRC
Over 30 million children are now displaced by war and conflict. «We must increase our efforts to protect, help and bring new opportunities and …
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Save Children
Causes of Child Labour
Primary causes International Labour Organisation (ILO) suggests poverty is the greatest single cause behind child labour. For impoverished hous…
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Save Children
Child Labour
Child labour refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend …
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Children's rights
A boy prepares biscuits at a factory in Afghanistan
A boy prepares biscuits at a small traditional factory in Afghanistan.
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Non-governmental organization
Child Labour in India
In 2015, the country of India is home to the largest number of children who are working illegally in various industrial industries. Agriculture i…
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Children's rights
Child Labour in Africa
Children working at a young age has been a consistent theme throughout Africa. Many children began first working in the home to help their parent…
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Of an estimated 215 child laborers around the globe: approximately 114 million (53%) are in Asia and the Pacific.
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