The faces of child labor
By Globaltimes.cn, Published: 2016-06-10 17:18:17
A boy works at a plastic bottle recycling center on April 6, 2016 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. According to a 2010 UNICEF report, the number of child laborers aged 5-17 in Bangladesh reached 3.2 million, about nearly a third of which perform hazardous jobs. Photo: NurPhoto/IC/china.com.cn
Editor's Note:
June 12 marks the 15th observance of “World Day Against Child Labor,” the UN-designated day focused on drawing attention to the ongoing scourge of child labor. According to a 2015 report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), 168 million children are still engaged in child labor, with more than half of them performing hazardous work.
A boy sorts through aluminum at an aluminum pot factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh in September, 2015. Children as young as 1o are forced to perform dangerous tasks such as moving heavy machinery. Working with almost no respiratory protection, child workers are often left to breathe in the silvery aluminum dust that floats through the factory and covers their bodies. Photo: Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/Barcroft Media/CFP 
Children work in a balloon factory on August 29, 2015 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Children at this factory earn as low as $10 a month working from 11 hour shifts, seven days a week. Driven by poverty, parents send their children to work at the factory, which then hands their salaries directly to the parents. Photo: Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/Barcroft Media/CFP 
Seu, a 13-year-old Cambodian boy, collects beer cans at the Anlong Pi landfill on March 19, 2015. He is able to earn $0.25 a day. Photo: Athit Perawongmetha/CFP 
Two boys shine shoes on a Kabul street in Afghanistan on February 10, 2015. Photo: cankaoxiaoxi.com 
An 11-year-old boy works in an auto repair shop in Dimapur, India on June 12, 2014. Photo: Xinhua 
A Pakistani child carries bricks on June 11, 2014 in Lahore, Pakistan. Photo: Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/CFP 
A boy raises his muddy hands at a brick factory in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 3, 2013. Photo: Xinhua 
Twelve-year-old Ajud looks from inside a truck on his way home from working at a roof tile factory in West Java, Indonesia. Children as young as nine from the poor villages of Ciharashas, Gunung Leutik and Ciroyom in the Bandung and Puwakarta districts of West Java, are regularly recruited for factory work. Photo: ix Media/CFP