The International Labor Organization(ILO) established June 12 as World Day Against Child Labor over ten years ago, yet despite raising awareness on the issue millions of children continue to be illegally employed. According to ILO,
“More than 168 million children are trapped in child labour. More than half of them, 85 million, are in hazardous work. This persistence of child labour is rooted in poverty and lack of decent work for adults, lack of social protection, and a failure to ensure that all children are attending school through to the legal minimum age for admission to employment.”
This year’s World Day Against Child Labor focuses on the importance of education as a critical role in tackling the issue, as these children miss out on the education and childhood they deserve.
Take a look at ten images below of child labor taken around the world.
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In Siem Reap, Cambodia, a boy along with dozens of other children scavenge for recyclable plastic in a landfill.
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These children from Haragach, Bangladesh fill up cigarettes with local tobacco in a factory.
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This young girl arranges bricks in Herat, Afghanistan.
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Naginah Sadiq works in a crick factory in Islamabad, Pakistan on June 12, 2012. The five-year-old girl makes about 250 Rupees, or about $2.77 US Dolars, per day according to her father.
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A boy works at a coal depot on April 16,2011 in Lad Rymbai, India. The children who work in the mines extract coal with their hands or simple tools, and no safety equipment.
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This young girl dries bricks for a brick factory in Chheuteal village, Kendal province, Cambodia.
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A boy from the Darfur region in Khartoum, Sudan makes mud blocks.
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This girl balances cement on her head at a construction site for a new hotel in NayPyiTaw, Burma.
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This seven-year-old boy works at a balloon factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Most of the children who work at the factory work up to 12 hours a day.
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This 10-year-old boy works in an aluminum factory for 12 hours per day in Dhaka Bangladesh.
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[Featured image credit:Reuters/Andrew Biraj]
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