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An Egyptian child stands in front of a tire repair shop where he works in Cairo, Egypt. Photo taken on Oct. 2.
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An Egyptian girl fills water containers at a pottery workshop in old Cairo. Photo taken on Oct. 18.
The Egyptian government estimates that 1.6 million minors work - almost 10 percent of the population aged 17 or under. Other experts put the number at nearly twice that.
Some child labor activists worry that protections for children could be loosened further under the new constitution still being written. Earlier this month, the Egyptian Coalition for Children's Rights warned that early drafts of the document did not include as firm prohibitions on child labor as past constitutions.
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An Egyptian child helps his father to load a donkey cart with hay in a farm at the outskirts of Qalyobiya, 27 miles north of Cairo, Egypt. Photo captured on Oct. 17.
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An Egyptian child loads a cart with cement bricks in a brick factory at the outskirts of Qalyobiya, 27 miles north of Cairo.
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An Egyptian child carries a clay roof tile in a pottery workshop in old Cairo. Photo captured on Oct. 18.
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An Egyptian child takes a tea break during his work at a mechanics workshop in Cairo, Egypt. Photo captured Oct. 4.
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A lot of Democrats could learn a thing or two from these kids.
No, it's the Republicans who want to remove the child labor laws. Might want to read up on that. It always has been Democrats who fight for minimum wage and child labor laws. But, nice try.
In 1892 the Democrats endorsed union recommendations to ban factory employment for children under 15. Child labor laws really came into effect under FDR's New Deal which made child labor illegal for kids under the age of 16.
The current Republican congress has pushed to change the child labor laws. Look it up. The facts are easy enough to find on Google.
Beakeaper you missed his point. He saying that the dem's could learn work ethic from these kids.
I sure wish they taught this to kids in school. You see what other kids are doing while you sit at home playing xbox.
I don't think they're "going through" anything. They're doing what people did for the vast majority of human history: work, work in order to live. Nothing inhumane about that...