EXPLOITATION OF CHILD LABOUR
Some types of work make useful, positive contributions to a child's development. Work can help children learn about responsibility and develop particular skills that will benefit themselves and the rest of society. Often, work is a vital source of income that helps to sustain children and their families. Even some organizations of child labour, such as the one Iqbal Masih (a working minor from Pakistan) belongs to, defend part-time work under certain conditions and for certain ages.
However, we need to persecute and erradicate child labor explotation. Across the world, millions of children do extremely hazardous work in harmful conditions, putting their health, education, personal and social development, and even their lives at risk. These are some of the circumstances they face:
* Full-time work at a very early age
* Dangerous workplaces
* Excessive working hours
* Psychological, physical and sexual abuse
* Limited or no pay
* Work and life on the streets under terrible conditions
* Inability to escape from the poverty cycle—no access to education
Even in this modern, post-industrialized age, millions of children are exploited methodically. According to UNICEF, 110 million children under 15 work under hazardous conditions. They grow up, their infancy stolen, without freedom of choice nor any possibility to develop their potential. For most of them, life is written in blood, sweat and tears and should be immediately withdrawn from this work.
This photographic essay was made between 1991 and 1997
El Salvador
India
Tenneries, Morocco
Emerald mine, Colombia
Sugar cane harvest, Southafrica
India
Turkey
Zanzibar, Tanzania
Guatemala garbage dump
Guatemala garbage dump
Ispartac, Turkey
India
Guatemala
Philippines
Bangladesh
Ex slaves from brick factories protest, Pakistan
Ship scrap, Bangladesh
Ship scrap, Bangladesh
Abandoned tea plantation, Rwanda
Sugar cane workers, Southafrica
Smoky mountain, Philippines
Guatemala
Pokhara river, Nepal
Collection of wages tea plantation, Sri Lanka
Nepal
Sertao, Brasil
Gems mine, Sri Lanka
Gold mine, Bolivia
Calcutta, India
India
FMLN guerrilla, El Salvador
Afganistan-Pakistan border
Prostitution, Philippines
Street boys and prostitution, Brazil
Prostitution in emeral town, Colombia
Bangladesh
Egypt
Maches factory, Sivakasi, India
India
India
Nepal
India, coal mine
Collecter of coal waste, india