A boy pushes a hand cart past a barricade that was set on a street after protests, earlier this year, against the decision of President Alassane Ouattara's to run for a third term in Bonoua, in the outskirts of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Friday, October 30, 2020. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)





In this Wednesday, June 19, 2019, photo, Hameda, 8, works at a brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S. and its allies have sunk billions of dollars of aid into Afghanistan since the invasion to oust the Taliban 18 years ago, but the country remains mired in poverty. Signs of hardship are everywhere, from children begging in the streets to entire families – including children as young as five or six – working at brick kilns in the sweltering heat. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





Children pull out a canoe in the floating slum of Makoko in Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday March 21, 2020. Lockdowns have begun in Africa as coronavirus cases rise above 1,000, while Nigeria on Saturday announced it is closing airports to all incoming international flights for one month in the continent's most populous country. Concerns are mounting for the welfare of Nigeria's most vulnerable community on stilts over spread of Covid-19 with little or no chances for social distancing as confirmed positive cases of the disease is on the rise. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





Chikuru, 11, carries water on her back as she walks home at Bugamba district in Goma, the capital of North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, September 30, 2019. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





A girls collects items thrown in as offerings by devotees in the waters of the Yamuna river on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in New Delhi on September 18, 2013. The idols of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing and later immersed in a river or the sea symbolising a ritual seeing-off of his journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind. (Photo by Ahmad Masood/Reuters)





Mauri, 11, left, and Cesar, 13, work at a clay brick factory in Tobati, Paraguay, Friday, September 4, 2020. The boys have been working at the factory, run by Mauri's family, since before schools stopped operating in March amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Jorge Saenz/AP Photo)





An Afghan boy sorts used plastic at a recycling unit in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, August 16, 2019. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





In this photo taken on July 31, 2019, a child labourer looks on as he sells ice-cream alongside a street in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. (Photo by Farshad Usyan/AFP Photo)





A boy collects recyclable waste from a dump on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan, 15 October 2020. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)





Indian children work in a brick kiln on the outskirts of Gauhati, northeastern Assam state, India, Monday, November 9, 2020. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A girl collects grapes to process them into raisins in Herat, Afghanistan, 22 July 2019. Afghanistan is a large producer of grapes as the country has several provinces having the long, warm, dry summers and cool winters required for the crops best development. (Photo by Jalil Rezayee/EPA/EFE)





An internally displaced Afghan child looks for plastic and other items which can be used as a replacement for firewood, at a garbage dump in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, December 15, 2019. According to UN statistics, Afghanistan is among the poorest countries in the world where children are subjected to extreme poverty and violence on a daily basis. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





A Pakistani boy repairs a motorbike wheel on a workshop as the world observes Universal Children's Day in Peshawar, Pakistan, 20 November 2020. Universal Children's Day is observed every year on 20 November as a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children. (Photo by Bilawal Arbab/EPA/EFE)





A Syrian refugee seasonal child poses for a photo in his tent near fields of drying tomatoes, in Izmir, Turkey, 01 August 2019. According to the Aegean Exporters Association, more than 60,000 tons of sun dried tomatoes from the Aegean coast in Turkey will be exported to Europe and the USA in 2019. The seasonal workers, most of whom are Syrian refugees, cut the tomatoes in half and lay them out on a white sheet on top of the soil. The fruits are then salted and left to dry under the sun for around a week, before being collected and brought to cold storage. The drying process is carried out entirely by natural means. (Photo by Erdem Sahin/EPA/EFE)





A child working at Ship breaking yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh on November 14, 2014. (Photo by Pascal Mannaerts/Alamy Stock Photo)