Child Labour Photographs

Labourer in Brick Factory, India, 1998 (International Labor Organization)

Liyakot Ali, 13, works in a silver cooking pot factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Akash)

Shaifur, 10, working in a door lock factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Akash)

Child Labour Cartoon Strip from 1924 (Minor)

An Indian woman holds the hand of her eight-year-old daughter after she hammered her finger while breaking rocks on a riverbank in Siliguri, India (Boylan)

Children at a brick factory in Fatullah, Bangladesh. For each 1,000 bricks they carry, they earn the equivalent of $0.90 US (Akash).

Children at a brick factory in Fatullah, Bangladesh (Akash)

Bahram of 12 years old working at a mill in Kabul, Afghanistan (Chung)

Child Metal Worker in India (Parker)

Jainal, 11, works in a silver cooking pot factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh for 3 years and is paid $10 US per month for 9-hour work days (Akash).

Zambian child labourer in the stone quarry (Deghati)

Child Labourer Moving Bricks in La Paz Centro, Nicaragua (Rauchi)

Sources:

Akash, G.M.B. Child Labour. 14 April 2009. Electronic. 5 March 2012.

Chung, Chien-min. Afghan Child Labor. n.d. Electronic. 5 March 2012.

Deghati, Manoocher. Child Labour Guide. December 2011. Electronic. 5 March 2012.

International Labour Organization. Child Labour. n.d. http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/child-labour/lang--en/index.htm. 3 March 2012.

Minor, Robert. Child Labor. 22 December 1924. Electronic. 5 March 2012.

Parker, David. Child Labor. n.d. Electronic. 5 March 2012.

Shaw, Jayanta. Child Labor Banned in India. 28 October 2010. Electronic. 5 March 2012.

Written by: Melissa