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I came across this Dad pacing up and down the pavement with his crying child outside a tapas bar on a back street in central Madrid.
I thought it rather ironic that the name of the tapas bar translates from the Spanish as "Labours of Love".
@Baluhar rd, Kotchandpur, Jhenaidah, Bangladesh
Date Taken : 26 12 17 (uploaded on 27 12 17)
Device: Sony DSCW800
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Leeuwarden, March 19, 2012, 12:55
Jelke was only fooling around at home with a dirty clothes basket during his lunchbreak of school. When i saw him putting the basket over his head i couldn't help but think of an imprisoned child, which reminded me of (quoting internet here:) hundreds of millions of girls and boys throughout the world that are engaged in work that deprives them of adequate education, health, leisure and basic freedoms, violating their rights. Of these children, more than half are exposed to the worst forms of child labour such as work in hazardous environments, slavery, or other forms of forced labour, illicit activities such as drug trafficking and prostitution, as well as involvement in armed conflict.
The most recent estimates suggest 127 million boys and 88 million girls are involved in child labour with 74 million boys and 41 million girls in the worst forms.
I guess the only thing i can ask Flickr members (and myself) to do; is to look for ways within our ability to give the abused children back their youth and lifes. (looking on the Internet for "child labour" might give us a start)
A child worker at the palm oil plantation in Indonesia. ©ILO/ Asrian Mirza.
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Pakistani labourers work by a smelter at an iron forge in Lahore, the eve of International Labour Day. Pakistan has a workforce of around 56 million people among a population of 168 million, according to Pakistan's official figures compiled by the Federal Bureau of Statistics. Every year thousands of labourers rally across the country demanding better wages and conditions to mark May Day
Even though poverty is considered to be a most prominent reason for Child labour, there are other factors like ,
1.) society and government that downplays the risk of child laboring and being blind to the issue.
2.) careless attitudes of the employers.
Well this one is working for a "Government Project" after-all.
Heavy load for an indigenous boy in Viet Nam's northern mountains. © ILO/ Tran Nhan Quyen
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Due to flourish of informal economic sectors the number of informal workers has been increasing rapidly and they are out of labour law coverage as the employers of non formal economy have opportunities to deprive these workers in all possible ways.
This was in Chhattisgarh, Central India. Some Indian friends and i had driven, then walked for hours to reach a cave and a waterfall, deep into the forest, where, supposedly, only sadhus lived. However, as soon as we got there we were welcomed by a group of villagers who worked at the enlargement of the path leading to the mystirous cave. The Sadhus were indeed
there, but they were no longer alone.
I captured this moment of intimacy between these two women, as they were walking down to the bottom of a gorge to fetch stones they would then carry on their heads back up to the cave. There were many of them, men and women, working on the site, while their kids would play around.
My friends and i had finally reached that place after great efforts for no other purpose than our own mere enjoyment. Now as i stood there i remember thinking how pathetic those efforts had seemed compared to theirs. Wherever you go, even in the remotest parts, human reality never leaves you alone in India.
Chhattisgarh, India. 2008