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  • 30
    Oct
    2012
    2:50pm, EDT

    1.6 million Egyptian children work, activists worry number will grow

    Khalil Hamra / AP

    An Egyptian child stands in front of a tire repair shop where he works in Cairo, Egypt. Photo taken on Oct. 2.

    Khalil Hamra / AP

    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.

    • In workshops, fields, Egyptian children at work
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    Khalil Hamra / AP

    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.

    Khalil Hamra / AP

    An Egyptian child loads a cart with cement bricks in a brick factory at the outskirts of Qalyobiya, 27 miles north of Cairo.

    Khalil Hamra / AP

    An Egyptian child carries a clay roof tile in a pottery workshop in old Cairo. Photo captured on Oct. 18.

    Khalil Hamra / AP

    An Egyptian child takes a tea break during his work at a mechanics workshop in Cairo, Egypt. Photo captured Oct. 4.

    4 comments

    1.6 million Egyptian children work A lot of Democrats could learn a thing or two from these kids.

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  • 8
    Oct
    2012
    7:27pm, EDT

    Rahmat Gul / AP

    Afghan children work to support their families

    Children work at a brick factory in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Oct. 8, 2012.

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  • 25
    Sep
    2012
    8:45pm, EDT

    Child labor rises in Central America

    Hector Retamal / AFP - Getty Images

    Children collect waste at a landfill in Managua, Nicaragua, Sept. 20, 2012.

    Hector Retamal, Getty Images — Child labor is a growing problem in Central America, a region plagued by poverty, where statistics show 13 percent of children in Nicaragua between the ages of five and 17 are forced to work, 21 percent in Guatemala, 15 percent in Honduras, 10 percent in Belize, seven percent in Panama, and five percent in El Salvador and Costa Rica.

    EDITOR’S NOTE: These images were received by NBC News on Sept. 25

    Hector Retamal / AFP - Getty Images

    A boy collects waste at a landfill in Managua, Nicaragua, Sept. 17, 2012.

    Hector Retamal / AFP - Getty Images

    A boy drags a sack of waste collected at a landfill in Managua, Nicaragua, Sept. 20.

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    1 comment

    How about in our country ?????

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  • 11
    Jul
    2012
    8:02pm, EDT

    Bonded child laborers rescued in New Delhi, India

    Indian bonded child laborer Mohammad Wasim, 13, cries while riding a bus after being rescued during a raid by workers from Bachpan Bachao Andolan "Save the Childhood Movement" in New Delhi on July 11, 2012.

    Photos and text by Kevin Frayer / AP

    About 50,000 children are believed to be working in factories in New Delhi alone, with thousands more begging on the streets and sorting garbage. India recently passed a law aimed at fighting child labor by making education compulsory up to age 14. Grinding poverty still leads many kids to work, and certain industries that involve intricate machinery or delicate handiwork prefer their smaller hands. Read more about raids on child labor here

    Indian bonded child laborer Mohammad Wasim, 13, left, sits in a vehicle after being rescued during a raid on July 11, 2012.

    Indian bonded child laborer Iqrar, 11, is led away by a worker after being rescued during a raid on July 11, 2012.

    An Indian bonded child laborer is checked by medical workers after being rescued in a raid on July 11, 2012.

    A young Indian bonded child laborer waits to be processed after being rescued during a raid on July 11, 2012.

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    12 comments

    So what happens to these kids now? Back to the environment that forced them into "bonded labor" in the first place? Will they be better off?

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  • 10
    Jul
    2012
    6:09am, EDT

    Danish Siddiqui / Reuters

    Take a look inside a treasure trove of used car parts

    Abdul Samad, 13, carries a part of a used car engine inside an automobile workshop in Mumbai, India, on July 10, 2012. An Indian automobile industry body on Tuesday slightly lowered its car sales growth forecast for the year ending next March, as higher costs and slower economic expansion impinge on demand.

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    I guess they are not categorized ....

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  • 13
    Jun
    2012
    5:41am, EDT

    Child laborers rescued in raids on Delhi factories

    Kevin Frayer / AP

    The Associated Press reports — A young bonded child laborer cries as he is led away after being rescued during a raid by workers from Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Childhood Movement, at a garment factory in New Delhi, India, on June 12, 2012.

    Raids on factories in the Indian capital revealed dozens of migrant kids hard at work Tuesday despite laws against child labor.

    Police rounded up 26 children from three textiles factories and a metal processing plant, but dozens more are believed to have escaped. Those captured had all come to New Delhi from the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

    Global day of action against child labor highlights plight of 215 million children

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    Kevin Frayer / AP

    Child laborers sit on the floor of the district magistrate's office as they wait to be processed after being rescued during a raid by workers from Bachpan Bachao Andolan in New Delhi on June 12, 2012.

    Kevin Frayer / AP

    Child laborers sit on the floor as bureaucrats go about their business at their desks at the district magistrate's office as they wait to be processed.

    A raid on a textile sweat shop in India frees more than 100 children forced to work in inhumane conditions. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.

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    This is what the American textile/apparel industry had to compete against...and still does. Little wonder we lost the "free trade" battle.

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  • 12
    Jun
    2012
    6:59am, EDT

    Global day of action against child labor highlights plight of 215 million children

    Niranjan Shrestha / AP

    An Indian migrant boy works in a sari factory on World Day Against Child Labor in Katmandu, Nepal, on June 12, 2012.

    Tuesday, June 12 has been designated World Day Against Child Labor by the International Labour Organization (ILO). The day aims to serve as a catalyst for the growing worldwide movement against child labor.

    According to figures cited by the ILO, the most recent estimates suggest 127 million boys and 88 million girls are involved in child labor with 74 million boys and 41 million girls in the worst forms.

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    A schoolgirl holds a placard during a rally organized to mark World Day Against Child Labour, in Kathmandu, Nepal on June 12, 2012. The placard reads, "Do not use children as labourers in your houses."

    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 100 miles north of Guatemala City, on June 11, 2012.

    Niranjan Shrestha / AP

    An Indian migrant boy works in a sari factory in Kathmandu, Nepal, on June 12, 2012.

    NBC News' Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel traveled 120 feet underground into a Malian artisanal gold mine.  The primitive gold pits are using child labor and a dangerous process involving mercury to find the precious metal that may end up in jewelry worn by Americans and people throughout the world.  

     

    3 comments

    This is something the UN should be doing, ending child labor, not catering to the Arabs hatred of Israel and Jews.

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  • 19
    Apr
    2012
    1:58pm, EDT

    Children in Bangladesh work to support themselves, their families

    Munir Uz Zaman / AFP / Getty Images

    A young boy working at an aluminum pot making factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 19.

    Munur Uz Zaman / AFP / Getty Ima

    A young boy working at an aluminum pot making factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 19.

    A recent UNICEF (United Nation Children’s Fund) report, “The State of the World’s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World,” focuses attention on children in urban areas. One billion children live in urban areas, a number that is growing rapidly. Yet disparities within cities reveal that many lack access to schools, health care and sanitation, despite living alongside these services. Many children are forced to work to support their families. A 2003 report found than more than 6.3 million children under the age of 14 are working in Bangladesh.

    Munir Uz Zaman / AFP / Getty Images

    11-year-old Amirul, left, earns 100 taka ($1.22 USD) a day, selling books from a pushcart, as a potential customer browses in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 19, 2012.

    Munir Uz Zaman / AFP / Getty Images

    Amirul, 11-years-old, pushes his cart full of books to sell on April 19 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

     

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  • 18
    Mar
    2012
    10:40pm, EDT

    No child's play in life of cigarette rolling, toiling

    Rafiq Maqbool / AP

    Eleven-year-old Sagira Ansari, right, rolls bidi tobacco with her family at their house in Dhuliyan, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.

    Sagira Ansari, 11, is among hundreds of thousands of children toiling in the hidden corners of rural India, working in hazardous industries crucial to the economy.

    Nearly every child in Sagira’s town of Dhuliyan works through the tobacco dust to feed India's near limitless demand for the thin, tight cigarettes, known as bidis. Sagira and her family earn 75 rupees ($1.50) for every 1,000 bidis rolled which brings in about 7,500 rupees ($150) a month.

    -- The Associated Press

    Rafiq Maqbool / AP

    Sagira Ansari watches a man weigh tendu leaves which will be used to roll tobacco, outside her house.

    Rafiq Maqbool / AP

    Sagira Ansari rolls bidi tobacco at her house in Dhuliyan, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.

    Rafiq Maqbool / AP

    Sagira Ansari holds up bundles of bidi tobacco cigarettes that she rolled at her house in Dhuliyan.

    Rafiq Maqbool / AP

    Sagira Ansari, who earns a living by rolling bidi tobacco, combs her hair during a break from work at her family's home in Dhuliyan, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.

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    4 comments

    Chef80 I get your point, but think you're being a bit harsh. That family has to roll about 3300 cigarettes a day just to make $5. We have child labor laws to prevent our kids from being deprived of a childhood as these Indian children are. But I get your point that our kids could often do with bette …

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  • 11
    Dec
    2011
    1:18pm, EST

    India is home to greatest number of child laborers in world

    Channi Anand / AP

    Indian rag picker children walk with rods fitted with magnets as they look for recyclable spare parts at an automobile yard on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Dec. 10. India remains home to the greatest number of child laborers in the world despite efforts by successive governments to address the problem through compulsory education and anti-poverty programs.

    Channi Anand / AP

    An Indian rag picker child collects recyclable spare parts at an automobile yard on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Dec. 10.

    Channi Anand / AP

    photograph, Indian rag picker children look for recyclable spare parts at an automobile yard on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Dec. 10.

    Channi Anand / AP

    An Indian rag picker child eats a snack while collecting recyclable spare parts at an automobile yard on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Dec. 10.

     Related story: Evidence of child labor in Mali gold mines

    3 comments

    I see a difference in children who go out and scavenge metal to try to help their family and have fun while doing it, and children who are forced to work in a dangerous factory/plant type place when they dont want to be there. I don't know if these children are being forced to do this or not.

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  • 2
    Jun
    2011
    6:26am, EDT

    Report proposes new thinking on US aid to Pakistan

    Muhammed Muheisen / AP

    A boy walks toward a water point to collect water for his family, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan on June 2. The U.S. should hold back much of its $7.5 billion aid package to Pakistan until it reforms dysfunctional policies related to energy, taxes and other areas, according to a new report that criticizes the American aid program's focus in a country beset by corruption, poverty and militancy.

    The AP reports from ISLAMABAD:

    The U.S. should hold back much of its $7.5 billion aid package to Pakistan until it reforms dysfunctional policies related to energy, taxes and other areas, according to a new report that criticizes the American aid program's focus in a country beset by corruption, poverty and militancy.

    The report by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Global Development is the culmination of months of research and interviews with aid and other experts in Pakistan and the United States. Titled "Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Fixing the U.S. Approach to Development in Pakistan," it also calls for focusing more on trade by giving Pakistani exports easier entry to U.S. markets. Continue reading.

    Related links:

    Center for Global Development - Beyond Bullets and Bombs

    The Council for Foreign Relations - Crisis Guide: Pakistan

    Slideshow - Pakistan: A nation in turmoil

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  • 22
    Apr
    2011
    11:58am, EDT

    Anindito Mekherjee / EPA

    Rescued Indian child laborers participate in a candle light vigil near the Indian war memorial, India Gate, in New Delhi, India on April 22. According to the media reports, the protest was organized by Bachpan Bachao Andolan, an anti-child-labor group after reports of the shocking death of 10-year-old child, Moin Khan, who was beaten to death by his employer in the Indian capital.

    Rescued child laborers in India hold a candlelight vigil in New Delhi

    More on the case of Moin Khan from the Hindustan Times.

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