audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - Child labor still affects millions of kids worldwide. Statistics from the International Labor Organization show that there are about 73 million children between ages 10 and 14 that work in economic activities throughout the world, and 218 million children working worldwide between the ages of 5 and 17. These figures do not even include domestic labor. The child labor problem is worst in Asia, where 44.6 million children have to work. In India 14.4% of all children between the ages of 10 and 14 are employed as child laborers. In Bangladesh the number is a shocking 30.1%. Bangladesh adopted the National Child Labor Elimination Policy 2010, providing a framework to eradicate all forms of child labor by 2015, but according to the International Labor Organization there are still around 3.2 million child laborers in Bangladesh and, according to the International Labour Organization, around 215 million kids worldwide are currently working in exploitative child labour conditions.
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July 12, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - SYMOON is a 14-year-old boy who works in a local dockyard where the working environment is hot and dangerous. He earns around $2.5 USD per day. His parents live in a village who are poor farmers. He lives with other co-workers in Dhaka. He moved to Dhaka for work after he completed the fifth grade.
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Nov. 23, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - A child worker moves bricks in a brickfield. The world is going through a speedy urbanization and Bangladesh is no exception to this. Such rapid urbanization generates a massive demand for bricks as it is one of the key ingredients to building a concrete structure.
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Oct. 15, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - SADEK MIAH is a 15-year-old who has been working in an aluminum factory for 3 years and earns as little as $2.5 USD. He lives with his parents in Dhaka. His father is an auto-rickshaw driver and his mother is a housewife.
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Nov. 23, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - Child workers stand in a brickfield barefoot with no shoes. Workers work here from dawn to dusk and their wages are often not up to the minimum standard. These children work here for as little as $1.5 USD per day. They are growing up without any education.
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Nov. 23, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - SAGOR is 12-year-old boy who works in a brick making yard and earns around $2.5 USD per day. He completed the fourth grade in school, before coming to work at the brick factory. His parents also work in the same brick making yard.
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Sept. 14, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - MAHIN is 10-year-old boy who works in an aluminum factory where different kinds of jars and pots are made. He lives in Dhaka with other workers of the same factory. His father is a poor farmer.
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Sept. 9, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - Balloons are produced by children for other children to play with. Children working in balloon factories earn $1.20 USD per day.
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Sept. 16, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - Portrait of a young worker at a shipyard in Bangladesh. The ship building industry in Bangladesh is spreading rapidly. Children who work here grow up without an education.
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Oct. 15, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - Child labor is very common in almost every industry in Bangladesh including the aluminum, balloon, and ship building industry. There are approximately 4.7 million or 12.6 percent of children aged 5 to 14 in the work force, according to UNICEF.
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Oct. 15, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - Child labor is very common in almost every industry of Bangladesh including the balloon factories.
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Oct. 25, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - SHUVO is 15-year-old boy who works in a local bookbinding factory. He lives with other workers in the same factory. He earns around $2 USD per day by working here from dawn to dusk. He started working here three years ago when he was in the sixth grade.
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March 29, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - RAJU at work on a machine in a silver factory. Raju is a 14-year-old boy who works in an aluminum factory and earns around $2.5 USD per day. He lives with his parents in Dhaka. His father is a stone mason and mother is a housewife. He dropped out of school when he was in the sixth grade.
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Aug. 29, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - ROCKY is a 5-year-old boy who works in a plastic recycling factory with his mother to earn a living. Poverty never gave him a chance to attend school. He earns around $1.5 USD per day. Bottles are mainly collected by hawkers and street children. Later on they sell those bottles to the local factory.
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June 18, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - HASAN is drying cattle skins in the sun in at a tannery. Hasan is a 12-year-old worker who works in a tannery and earns $1.5 USD per day. His father is a rickshaw puller and his mother is a maid.
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Oct. 14, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - SAJEEB is a 13-year-old boy who recently started working in a dockyard where they make propellers for ships and large motor boats. He finished the seventh grade before he started working in the dockyard.
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Nov. 23, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - A child worker, left, pulls a load while working in a brickfield.
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Aug. 7, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - TANIA is a 7-year-old girl who sells balloons on the streets of Dhaka. She lives in a nearby slum with her parents. Her father is a day laborer and her mother is involved in the balloon business with her.
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Sept. 16, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - SYMOON is a 14-year-old boy who works in a local dockyard where the working environment is hot and extremely dangerous. He earns around $2.5 USD per day. His parents are poor farmers, who live in a village.
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