Boys pan for gold on a riverside at Iga Barriere, 25 km (15 miles) from Bunia, in the resource-rich Ituri region of eastern Congo February 16, 2009. Ituri is one of many areas of the country to have experienced bitter ethnic conflict between rival tribes in recent years. Massacres have left tens of thousands dead. It is this fighting that led U.S. authorities to take the unprecedented step of naming Congo in section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank financial regulation act, which says U.S.-listed companies that source gold, tungsten, tantalum and tin from Congo or its neighbours must assure the U.S. stock exchange regulator that their business is not helping fund conflict. (Photo by Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters)





A Syrian refugee boy works at bicycle repair shop at the main market, in the Al-Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, Jordan, near the border with Syria September 17, 2016. (Photo by Muhammad Hamed/Reuters)





Children collect plastic water bottles among the garbage washed ashore as a result of a storm surge of typhoon Haima at the Manila Bay on October 20, 2016. One of the most powerful typhoons to ever hit the Philippines destroyed houses, tore roofs off schools and ripped giant trees out of the ground on October 20, but there were no immediate reports of deaths. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP Photo)





A girl dries unhusked rice on a road in front of her home in Kampong Thom province, Cambodia, September 24, 2016. (Photo by Samrang Pring/Reuters)





Girls carry water on a road leading past the village where Alfred Olango's family once lived in Koc Angako Nwoya, Gulu, Uganda September 29, 2016. (Photo by James Akena/Reuters)





A girl sells toys in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, November 3, 2016. (Photo by Samrang Pring/Reuters)





Boys wait to collect vegetables from a pile of rotten vegetables near a dustbin in Peshawar, Pakistan November 10, 2016. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)





A boy sells kitchen ware at a market in Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo on November 9, 2016. (Photo by Eduardo Soteras/AFP Photo)





Pakistani children collect recyclable items from a garbage dumb in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, October 17, 2016. They work from sunrise to dusk to earn money for their families. According to Ahsan Iqbal, minister for Planning, Development and Reforms 60 million Pakistanis are living below the poverty line. (Photo by B.K. Bangash/AP Photo)





A Syrian boy prepares manakish in the rebel-held side of the northern embattled city of Aleppo on October 27, 2016. Regime forces backed by ally Russia have waged an aerial and ground assault since late September to recapture eastern Aleppo, killing hundreds of civilians and destroying infrastructure including hospitals. (Photo by Karam Al-Masri/AFP Photo)





A boy transport dry carpets on a push-cart after washing them at a workshop in Peshawar, Pakistan Friday, November 11, 2016. (Photo by Mohammad Sajjad/AP Photo)





Afghan children help their father's work at a local brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, September 19, 2016. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





Pakistanis peel shrimp at a shrimp farm in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, September 21, 2016. They earn about Pak Rs. 200 (US$2) a day. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)