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Young children collect bricks in Herat, Afghanistan
Young children collect bricks as they work as labourers at a brick factory in Herat, Afghanistan.
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A labourer feeds her child at a brick kiln
A labourer feeds her child at a brick kiln, after resuming work during lockdown in Jammu, India Photograph: Channi Anand/AP
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A young vendor sifts charcoal at his stall in Herat, Afghanistan
A young vendor sifts charcoal at his stall in Herat, Afghanistan.
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Why Child Labor Isn't Illegal in India ?
The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Kailash Satyarthi who has worked to end child labor and slavery, prompts a look at what Indian law says about …
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Poverty
Kabul's beggar children working the streets
A child sleeps on the ground as she waits for alms ahead of the upcoming holy fasting month of Ramadan in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Poverty in India
A boy walks on a pile of garbage covering a drain in New Delhi
A boy walks on a pile of garbage covering a drain in New Delhi, India.
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Child labor: The inconvenient truth behind India's growth story
Seventy years ago last week, India gained independence. The country has since created one of the world’s largest economies. But despite its weal…
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Women rights in India
Over 50% Indian women labour on without being paid
Labourers try to keep warm on a building site in Greater Noida, Greater Noida, India. Over 51 per cent of work done by women in India is unpaid …
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Poverty in Afghanistan
"They Bear All the Pain" : Hazardous Child Labor in Afghanistan
The Afghan government is failing to protect tens of thousands of children, some as young as 5, from hazardous conditions in the workplace, in vio…
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Poverty in Philippines
Repression and child labour in the Philippines
A boy collects recyclable plastic bottles drifting with garbage along the coast of Manila Bay at the slum area in the Baseco Compound in metro Ma…
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Poverty in India
An Indian child sleeps as his laborer parents work nearby
An Indian child sleeps in a hammock as his laborer parents work nearby in New Delhi.
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Child Labor : India's dirty little secret
Municipal workers try to retrieve a manhole cover that has fallen in during heavy rain.
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Poverty in Keyna
Child labour is still rife in Kenya despite laws
Street children look on as supporters of President Uhuru Kenyatta demonstrate against the supreme court’s nullification of Kenyatta’s election vi…
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Poverty in India
Child labour in India: an uncertain future?
A boy picks out plastic bottles at a recycling yard in New Delhi, India.
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Poverty in Philippines
Number of poor children increasing in the Philippines
A girl carries a baby while waiting for relief goods inside of the evacuation center in Baloi, Lanao Del Norte, Philippines.
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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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