An Iraqi female labourer directs a donkey-pulled cart loaded with clay bricks, at a factory in al-Kifl district on the outskirts of Hilla in central Iraq, on February 10, 2025. Economic hardship has pushed five percent of Iraq's children into labour, a UN study found in 2018, often in harsh conditions and at a risk to their health. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)
