Photographs: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
Child labour refers to the employment of children at regular and sustained labour. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organisations and is illegal in many countries, including India.
Here we take a look at child labour around the world.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters
Josue Alexander Chavez, nine-year-old, uses a hammer to break stones as he works near the road to Mazatenango, about 165km north of Guatemala City.
Chavez works with his parents, breaking stones for the construction of houses. He works from 7am-5pm and makes 20 quetzales ($2.50) per day.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters
Josue Alexander Chavez carries a hammer as his father Mario Chavez gathers stones near the road to Mazatenango, about 165km north of Guatemala City.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters
Josue Alexander Chavez uses a hammer to break stones north of Guatemala City.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters
A girl covers her face near the road to Mazatenango, where she fills holes in the road with earth in exchange for money, about 165km north of Guatemala City.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
A boy yawns as he waits for customers at his roadside apple stall in Kabul.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Andrew Biraj/Reuters
Seven-year-old Wasim works in a bakery workshop on outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Andrew Biraj/Reuters
Naser, seven-year-old, works at a metal workshop which makes propellers for ships at a ship-building yard next to Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Mohamed Al Sayaghi/Reuters
A boy works in a traditional factory producing coal about 30km south of the city of Taiz, Yemen.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Atish Patel/Reuters
Waste collector Dinesh Mukherjee, 11, uses a magnet attached to a wooden stick to collect pieces of loose metal at the Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Laurence Tan/Reuters
Twelve-year-old Nepalese, Sirjan Rai, rests on the mountain footpath while carrying goods towards Dingboche, Nepal. Earning about Nepalis Rs 3,000 per month, Sirjan helps works as a porter to help provide for his family in Pangboche.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Finbarr OReilly/Reuters
Boys pan for gold on a riverside at Iga Barriere, 25km from Bunia, in the resource-rich Ituri region of eastern Congo.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
A boy tries to sell a hand made hat to tourists at a public beach in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Jitendra Prakash/Reuters
A girl arranges bricks at a brick factory in Tharvai village, 35km from Allahabad.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Edgard Garrido/Reuters
A child worker picks coffee beans from coffee plants at a plantation in El Paraiso, Honduras.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters
Child labourers sit on their wheelbarrows while waiting for work at a local market early in the morning in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Andrew Biraj/Reuters
Riffat, eight-year-old, splashes water on his face as he works at a vehicle spare parts store in Dholaikhal, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Faisal Mahmood/Reuters
Simon, 12, holds a light to assist his supervisor working on a motorcycle engine at a workshop in Islamabad. Simon earns Pakistani Rs 20 a day working as a helper at the workshop.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Andrew Biraj/Reuters
Czoton, seven-year-old, works at a balloon factory on the outskirts of Dhaka. About 20 children are employed at the factory and most of them work for 12 hours a day. The weekly wage is 150 taka ($2.14) for the children.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Andrew Biraj/Reuters
Tota Miya, 10, shows his hands after preparing soil to make bricks in a brick field on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
A boy poses as he stands in front of a shop selling scraps in the old quarters of Delhi.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Damir Sagolj/Reuters
An illegal immigrant boy from Myanmar collects plastic at a rubbish dump site near Mae Sot. Despite terrible living conditions and the fear of being sent back to their country, several hundred illegal immigrants from Myanmar live and earn an average of $1 per day collecting plastic at the rubbish dump near the border town of Mae Sot, Thailand.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters
Children working as rag pickers search for scrap at a garbage dump in Siliguri.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Omar Sobhani/Reuters
A boy carries rubbish for recycling outside Kabul. About 1.2 million Afghan children carry out part or full time work, the government says, in a country where war, poverty, widespread unemployment and a preference for large families have created a huge underage labour market.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Ahmad Masood/Reuters
A boy works at a brick-making factory outside Kabul. Labourers, most of whom work barefoot and without gloves, earn from $3 to $8 a day depending on their working hours and the number of bricks they make.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Omar Sobhani/Reuters
Afghan boy Abdul Wahab works in a blacksmith's shop in Kabul.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Omar Sobhani/Reuters
Afghan boy Abdul Wahab rests after work in a blacksmith's shop in Kabul.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters
Siddiqullah,12, carries a basket of potatoes to nearby vegetable and fruit vendors in Karachi.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Mohsin Raza/Reuters
A cobbler walks in a closed market during a partial strike called by traders against power cuts in Lahore.
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Haunting images of child labour around the world
Photographs: Mian Khursheed/Reuters
Ahsan, 12, stands looking over an oven at a brick yard in the outskirts of Islamabad. Ahsan works with his family members at the brick yard and earns about Pakistani Rs 300 ($3.5) per day.
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